Bug 1456363 (CVE-2016-10376) - CVE-2016-10376 gajim: XEP-0146 makes it possible to extract plain-text from OTR sessions
Summary: CVE-2016-10376 gajim: XEP-0146 makes it possible to extract plain-text from O...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2016-10376
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1456364 1456365
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-05-29 08:48 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:13:31 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-29 08:48:26 UTC 
Gajim unconditionally implements the "XEP-0146: Remote Controlling Clients" extension. This can be abused by malicious XMPP servers to, for example, extract plaintext from OTR encrypted sessions.

Upstream issue:

https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/issues/8378

Upstream patch:

https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/commit/cb65cfc5aed9efe05208ebbb7fb2d41fcf7253cc

References:

https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2016-August/031335.html
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-05-29 08:49:15 UTC 
Created gajim tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1456365]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1456364]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:13:31 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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