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Bug 397499 - x11-plugins/pidgin-sipe fails to authenticate reporting 'read error'
Summary: x11-plugins/pidgin-sipe fails to authenticate reporting 'read error'
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal major (vote)
Assignee: Ian Whyman (thev00d00) (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2012-01-03 14:16 UTC by Andrew Waters
Modified: 2012-01-10 20:05 UTC (History)
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Description Andrew Waters 2012-01-03 14:16:35 UTC 
Created attachment 297785 [details]
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Using pidgin-sipe 1.12.0 and dev-libs/nss 3.13.1-r1 fails to authenticate with Microsoft Office Communicator Server. It reports read error.

This looks like it is the fix in nss 3.13.1 for CVE-2011-3389.

It can be worked around by specifying NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV=0 in the environment when running pidgin.
Comment 1 Ian Whyman (thev00d00) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-01-08 18:11:43 UTC 
Hey,

This is a known problem to which I can't currently see a solution. There is no way to disable the use of NSS within the pidgin ebuild currently.

If you could confirm it whether it works with USE="gnutls" on pidgin, I will add use dependency if it works.

Otherwise I may simply have to add a message the ebuild about this.

Thanks!
Comment 2 Andrew Waters 2012-01-09 08:32:12 UTC 
Building pidgin with USE="gnutls" makes it work.
Comment 3 Ian Whyman (thev00d00) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-01-10 20:05:19 UTC 
Excellent, I have updated the ebuild, thanks for reporting!