Bug 1363715 (CVE-2016-2379) - CVE-2016-2379 pidgin: Eavesdropping hashed password when logging
Summary: CVE-2016-2379 pidgin: Eavesdropping hashed password when logging
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-2379
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1348890
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Reported: 2016-08-03 12:14 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:57:13 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-08-03 12:14:35 UTC 
An attacker who eavesdrops on a Mxit session can capture the user's hashed password and this hashed password can be re-used to login as that user.

According to upstream, this is a fundamental problem with the Mxit protocol and cannot be fixed.

External Reference:

https://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=95
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0122/
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