From ${URL} : Summary ------- An SSL stripping vulnerability was discovered in Trojitá [1], a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client. *User's credentials are never leaked*, but if a user tries to send an e-mail, the automatic saving into the "sent" or "draft" folders could happen over a plaintext connection even if the user's preferences specify STARTTLS as a requirement. Background ---------- The IMAP protocol defines the STARTTLS command which is used to transparently upgrade a plaintext connection to an encrypted one using SSL/TLS. The STARTTLS command can only be issued in an unauthenticated state as per the IMAP's state machine. RFC 3501 also allows for a possibility of the connection jumping immediately into an authenticated state via the PREAUTH initial response. However, as the STARTTLS command cannot be issued once in the authenticated state, an attacker able to intercept and modify the network communication might trick the client into a state where the connection cannot be encrypted anymore. Affected versions ----------------- All versions of Trojitá up to 0.4 are vulnerable. The fix will be included in version 0.4.1 (to be released after the CVE gets assigned). Remedies -------- Configurations which use the SSL/TLS form the very beginning (e.g. the connections using port 993) are secure and not vulnerable. Possible impact --------------- The user's credentials will *never* be transmitted over a plaintext connection even in presence of this attack. Because Trojitá proceeded to use the connection without STARTTLS in face of PREAUTH, certain data might be leaked to the attacker. The only example which we were able to identify is the full content of a message which the user attempts to save to their "Sent" folder while trying to send a mail. We don't believe that any other data could be leaked. Again, user's credentials will *not* be leaked as they are never transmitted under this scenario. Acknowledgement --------------- Thanks to Arnt Gulbrandsen on the imap-protocol ML for asking what happens when we're configured to request STARTTLS and a PREAUTH is received, and to Michael M Slusarz for starting that discussion. [1] http://trojita.flaska.net/ @maintainer(s): since the package has never been marked as stable, we don't need to stabilize it. After the bump, please remove the affected versions from the tree.
This is now CVE-2014-2567. Upstream release 0.4.1 (on sourceforge, sha1sum 3db0c6736db9834630dc8bcded00707cfef60a20) fixes the problem. Please fix this by a version bump.
+*trojita-0.4.1 (21 Mar 2014) + + 21 Mar 2014; Agostino Sarubbo <ago@gentoo.org> +trojita-0.4.1.ebuild: + Version bump to 0.4.1 to fix CVE-2014-2567, wrt bug #505146
CVE-2014-2567 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2567): The OpenConnectionTask::handleStateHelper function in Imap/Tasks/OpenConnectionTask.cpp in Trojita before 0.4.1 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to trigger use of cleartext for saving a message into a (1) sent or (2) draft folder via a PREAUTH response that prevents later use of the STARTTLS command.
Thanks all. Removing kde + qt from cc. Nothing to do here anymore.