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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201401-02
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Severity: Low
Title: Gajim: Information disclosure
Date: January 06, 2014
Bugs: #442860
ID: 201401-02

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Synopsis
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An error in Gajim causes invalid OpenSSL certificates to be accepted as
valid.

Background
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Gajim is a Jabber/XMPP client which uses GTK+.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-im/gajim < 0.15.3-r1 >= 0.15.3-r1

Description
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The _ssl_verify_callback() function in tls_nb.py does not properly
validate SSL certificates, causing any certificate to be accepted as
valid as long as the root CA is valid.

Impact
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A remote attacker might employ a specially crafted certificate to
conduct man-in-the-middle attacks on SSL connections and potentially
disclose sensitive information.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Gajim users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge –sync
# emerge –ask –oneshot –verbose “>=net-im/gajim-0.15.3-r1”

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2012-5524
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-5524

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-02.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users’ machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2014 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons – Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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