Bug 846377 (CVE-2012-3461)

Summary: CVE-2012-3461 libotr: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the Base64 decoder
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: pwouters
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-08-07 15:24:48 UTC
Multiple heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way the Base64 decoder of libotr, an Off-The-Record Messaging library and toolkit, performed decoding of certain messages. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted OTR message that once processed in an application linked against libotr would lead to that application crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the application.

References:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684121
[2] http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-dev/2012-July/001347.html

Relevant upstream patches:
[3] http://otr.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=otr/libotr;a=commitdiff;h=b17232f86f8e60d0d22caf9a2400494d3c77da58
[4] http://otr.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=otr/libotr;a=commitdiff;h=6d4ca89cf1d3c9a8aff696c3a846ac5a51f762c1
[5] http://otr.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=otr/libotr;a=commitdiff;h=1902baee5d4b056850274ed0fa8c2409f1187435

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-08-07 15:36:13 UTC
These issues affect the versions of the libotr package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16 and 17. Please schedule an update.

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These issues affect the versions of the libotr package, as shipped with Fedora EPEL 5 and 6. Please schedule an update.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-08-07 15:37:16 UTC
Created libotr tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 846380]
Affects: epel-all [bug 846381]

Comment 3 Paul Wouters 2012-08-07 20:09:57 UTC
I'm talking with upstream. They only released a patch, which also increases the version number of the release, without releasing a tar ball. I'm trying to convince them to do a proper tar ball release.

Comment 4 Paul Wouters 2012-08-08 16:53:44 UTC
bodhi didn't update bugzilla, but Fedora builds have been made. EL builds will follow soon.


  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libotr-3.2.0-7.fc16
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libotr-3.2.0-8.fc17

Comment 5 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-08-08 17:32:57 UTC
The CVE identifier of CVE-2012-3461 has been assigned to these issues:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/08/3

Comment 6 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-08-08 17:34:44 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> bodhi didn't update bugzilla, but Fedora builds have been made. EL builds
> will follow soon.
> 
> 
>   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libotr-3.2.0-7.fc16
>   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libotr-3.2.0-8.fc17

Thanks, Paul (I suspect both of the bug ids, thus #846377 and #846380 need to be listed when scheduling Bodhi update request).

Comment 7 Paul Wouters 2012-08-09 16:30:10 UTC
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libotr-3.2.0-5.el6
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libotr-3.2.0-2.el5

(apparently security marked bugs get their announcements delayed on purpose)

Comment 8 Paul Wouters 2012-08-15 01:44:12 UTC
there is updated version of this patch, which is included in a new version of libotr (and pidgin-otr), despite earlier plans of upstream to not release a new version, I'm building this now and tomorrow

Comment 9 Paul Wouters 2012-08-16 18:59:08 UTC
builds are in testing. note there is no new CVE planned for the difference between the two patches.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2012-08-25 02:56:15 UTC
libotr-3.2.1-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2012-08-25 03:01:11 UTC
libotr-3.2.1-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2012-09-01 17:24:09 UTC
libotr-3.2.1-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2012-09-01 17:24:57 UTC
libotr-3.2.1-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2012-09-17 23:42:41 UTC
libotr-3.2.1-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.