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Bug 620146 (CVE-2016-10376)

Summary: <net-im/gajim-0.16.6-r1: XEP-0146 makes it possible to extract plain-text from OTR sessions (CVE-2016-10376)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: aidecoe
Priority: Normal Flags: stable-bot: sanity-check+
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1456363
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa cve]
Package list:
=net-im/gajim-0.16.6-r1
Runtime testing required: Yes

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-05-29 15:00:14 UTC
From ${URL} :

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


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Amadeusz Żołnowski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-05-29 16:58:29 UTC
gajim-0.16.6-r1 with the fix is in the tree.
Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-06-01 07:41:50 UTC
amd64 stable
Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-06-01 09:14:39 UTC
x86 stable
Comment 4 Markus Meier gentoo-dev 2017-06-12 18:53:18 UTC
arm stable
Comment 5 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-06-13 12:33:40 UTC
ppc64 stable
Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-06-21 12:01:16 UTC
ppc stable.

Maintainer(s), please cleanup.
Security, please vote.
Comment 7 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2017-07-04 21:22:39 UTC
Arches, Thank you for your work.
New GLSA Request filed.

Maintainer(s), please drop the vulnerable version(s).
Comment 8 Amadeusz Żołnowski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-07-05 19:25:57 UTC
Dropped 0.16.6.
Comment 9 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-07-10 00:06:53 UTC
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201707-14 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-14
by GLSA coordinator Thomas Deutschmann (whissi).