Bug 1153839 (CVE-2014-8760) - CVE-2014-8760 ejabberd: clients can unexpectedly connect without encryption
Summary: CVE-2014-8760 ejabberd: clients can unexpectedly connect without encryption
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2014-8760
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1153840 1153841 1153842
Blocks: 1153843
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-10-16 23:58 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:35:15 UTC
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-10-16 23:58:29 UTC 
It was reported that clients could unexpectedly connect without encryption:

http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2014-October/002438.html

Upstream fix (master):

https://github.com/processone/ejabberd/commit/7bdc1151b

References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/312
Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-10-16 23:59:15 UTC 
Created ejabberd tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1153840]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1153841]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1153842]
Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:35:15 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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