Re: pidgin OTR information leakage

[Rich Pieri <ratinox () MIT EDU>]

On Feb 27, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Michele Orru wrote:
> I think you didn't understood the content of the advisory.
> If there are 10 non-root users in an Ubuntu machine for example,
> if user 1 is using pidgin with OTR compiled with DBUS, then user 2 to 10
> can see what user 1 pidgin conversation.


This is not what the OP or CVE describe:

> > plaintext. This makes it possible for attackers that have gained 
> > user-level access on a host, to listen in on private conversations 
> > associated with the victim account.

Which I read as: if I compromise user1's account then I can snoop user1's DBUS sessions.  It says nothing about me 
being able to snoop user2's sessions.  The leading phrase about attackers gaining user-level access implies that 
legitimate users on a system are not a relevant issue.

I believe that clarification is in order.

-- 
Rich Pieri <ratinox () MIT EDU>
MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science


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