Description
Race condition in the XMPP library in Smack before 4.1.9, when the SecurityMode.required TLS setting has been set, allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass TLS protections and trigger use of cleartext for client authentication by stripping the "starttls" feature from a server response.
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/commit/059ee99ba0d5ff7758829acf5a9aeede09ec820b ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J4WXAZ4JVJXHMEDDXJVWJHPVBF5QCTZF/ ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95129 ↗
- https://issues.igniterealtime.org/projects/SMACK/issues/SMACK-739 ↗
- https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/commit/a9d5cd4a611f47123f9561bc5a81a4555fe7cb04 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/22/12 ↗
- https://community.igniterealtime.org/blogs/ignite/2016/11/22/smack-security-advisory-2016-11-22 ↗