[JDEV] [SECURITY] Remote roster manipulation bug in various Jabber clients

[Jamin W. Collins]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:05:11PM +0200, Jacek Konieczny wrote:

> 3. Impact
> 
> The attack cannot be done from Jabber client connection to jabberd
> 1.4.x server because of similar bug (or feature) in this server - it
> doesn't check "to" attribute and all such <iq/>s treats as directed to
> the server. Attacker roster stored on server is modified instead of
> victims ones.

Wouldn't this still be a concern?  The roster on the server would be
modified and only corrected if the client exited properly, thus
resyncing it's list to the server, right?

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Jamin W. Collins

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