[pkg-apparmor] Bug#805546: apparmor-profiles-extra: AppArmor profile prevents pidgin from starting

intrigeri intrigeri at debian.org
Thu Jan 18 16:42:14 UTC 2018


>> It seems that this wrapper [1] and the corresponding 'default' file
>> [2] were introduced three years ago in pidgin-sipe 1.13.1-2.1, as
>> a way to make it slightly easier for users of to communicate with
>> Microsoft OCS/Lync servers that had not got the fixes for the BEAST
>> attack (CVE-2011-3389) yet. This workaround that apparently was meant
>> to be temporary [3]. My understanding is that Microsoft published the
>> fixes needed server-side on 2012-01-10 ([4], [5]). I would hope that
>> the server-side situation has evolved a bit in four years, wrt.
>> supporting BEAST fixes.

That wrapper was removed:

pidgin-sipe (1.23.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Remove NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV workaround (Closes: #882125).
        - Diversion of /usr/bin/pidgin clashes with Pidgin AppArmor profile,
          which is now enabled by default in Debian. The workaround was
          introduced 5 years ago and Lync/SfB servers have since fixed the
          SSL bug so it's reasonably safe to drop it from pidgin-sipe package.

⇒ I'll (somewhat artificially) close this bug with the version that's
currently in sid, to indicate that Stretch is still affected.



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