CVE-2016-10376

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    CVE-2016-10376

    Published: 28 May 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Gajim through 0.16.7 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.

    References: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-14, http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3943, https://bugs.debian.org/863445, https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2016-August/031335.html, https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/commit/cb65cfc5aed9efe05208ebbb7fb2d41fcf7253cc, https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/issues/8378

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    Network
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    Availability
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