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REDHAT-BUG-1153839

REDHAT-BUG-1153839: Medium severity ProcessOne ejabberd vulnerability

Published Oct 16, 2014

Updated

It was reported that clients could unexpectedly connect without encryption:

http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2014-October/002438.html

Upstream fix (master):

https://github.com/processone/ejabberd/commit/7bdc1151b

References: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/312

Affected Software

1 affected component

ProcessOne ejabberd

Event History

Oct 16, 2014

Data Sourced

via Red Hat·11:58 PM

DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the practical exposure for deployments using this software?

Clients that are expected to use encryption could instead establish connections without encryption, exposing those connections to the risks of unencrypted transport.

Is an upstream fix available?

Yes. The provided upstream fix is identified as commit 7bdc1151b in the ejabberd master branch.

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