CVE-2017-5604

Name	CVE-2017-5604
Description	An incorrect implementation of "XEP-0280: Message Carbons" in multiple XMPP clients allows a remote attacker to impersonate any user, including contacts, in the vulnerable application's display. This allows for various kinds of social engineering attacks. This CVE is for mcabber 1.0.0 - 1.0.4.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	854738

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
mcabber (PTS)	bullseye	1.1.2-1	fixed
	forky, sid, bookworm, trixie	1.1.2-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Debian Bugs
mcabber	source	wheezy	(not affected)
mcabber	source	jessie	(not affected)
mcabber	source	(unstable)	1.0.4-1.1	854738

Notes

[jessie] - mcabber <not-affected> (XEP-0280: Message Carbons not implemented)
[wheezy] - mcabber <not-affected> (XEP-0280: Message Carbons not implemented)