Bug 1295475 (CVE-2015-8688) - CVE-2015-8688 gajim: Message interception due to unverified origin of roster push
Summary: CVE-2015-8688 gajim: Message interception due to unverified origin of roster ...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2015-8688
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: 1295476 1295477
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-04 15:56 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:34 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: gajim 0.16.5
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:47:01 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-01-04 15:56:25 UTC 
It was found that gajim doesn’t verify the origin of roster pushes thus allowing third parties to modify the roster.

External reference:

http://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html

Upstream patch:

https://trac.gajim.org/changeset/af78b7c068904d78c5dfb802826aae99f26a8947/
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-01-04 15:56:52 UTC 
Created gajim tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1295476]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1295477]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:47:01 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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