Bug 1346839 - kopete: OTR plugin leaks unencrypted messages
Summary: kopete: OTR plugin leaks unencrypted messages
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1346841
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-06-15 12:42 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:54:56 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-06-15 12:42:25 UTC
Using kopete with OTR plugin may lead to sending messages unencrypted without notice.

Upstream bugs:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274099
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362535

References:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827048

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-06-15 12:43:45 UTC
Created kopete tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1346841]

Comment 2 Than Ngo 2016-06-15 13:48:38 UTC
maybe we should disable OTR plugin as a workaround temporary before it's fixed by upstream

Comment 3 Andrej Nemec 2016-06-15 13:58:40 UTC
That sounds like a good idea. I would definitely not continue to provide this plugin as long as it does not provide reliable encryption.

Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2016-06-16 00:28:58 UTC
I personally have a slight preference to not disabloing anything, since the otr plugin does work, just with caveats.

How about splitting it out into a subpkg that's not installed by default, and make these currently-known issues with otr prominent in the pkg description?

(If that's not agreeable, then I have no objections to fully disabling it)

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:54:56 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.


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