glsa-201707-14.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201707-14">
  <title>Gajim: Information disclosure</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Gajim might allow remote attackers to intercept
    encrypted communications.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">gajim</product>
  <announced>2017-07-10</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-07-10</revised>
  <bug>620146</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-im/gajim" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.16.6-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.16.6-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Gajim is a Jabber/XMPP client which uses GTK+.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Gajim unconditionally implements the “XEP-0146: Remote Controlling
      Clients” extension.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Remote attackers, by enticing a user to connect to a malicious XMPP
      server, could extract plaintext from Off The Record (OTR) encrypted
      sessions.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Gajim users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-im/gajim-0.16.6-r1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10376">
      CVE-2016-10376
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-07-04T21:23:24Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-07-10T00:02:36Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>