[Secure-testing-team] Bug#569506: irssi-plugin-otr: emote leaks information

Micah Anderson micah at debian.org
Thu Feb 11 23:58:45 UTC 2010


Package: irssi-plugin-otr
Version: 0.3-1
Severity: important
Tags: security

The irssi otr plugin silently leaks unencrypted *on the record*
information when you use the /me emote functionality of irssi.

If you issue '/me hates leaking' in your client, you will not have any
indication whatsoever that this emote was sent over an unencrypted
communications channel, but it clearly is:

<br><font size="2">(03:48:27 PM) </font><b><font size="3">The
following message received from <a
href="mailto:micah at entodaspartes.org">micah at entodaspartes.org</a> was
<i>not</i> encrypted: [/me hates leaking]</font></b>

That is bad, it should not do that!
micah


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-vserver-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash





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