Cryptographic Issues Affecting gajim package, versions <0.16.6-1.1
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- published28 May 2017
- disclosed28 May 2017
Introduced: 28 May 2017
CVE-2016-10376 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:13 gajim to version 0.16.6-1.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gajim package and not the gajim package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.
Gajim through 0.16.7 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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10376
- https://bugs.debian.org/863445
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3943
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-14
- https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/commit/cb65cfc5aed9efe05208ebbb7fb2d41fcf7253cc
- https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/issues/8378
- https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2016-August/031335.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-10376