FS#72117 - [element-desktop] [element-web] 1.7.34-2: Critical security issues with key sharing

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Pascal Ernster (hardfalcon) - Monday, 13 September 2021, 12:42 GMT
Last edited by Jonas Witschel (diabonas) - Monday, 13 September 2021, 15:05 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Security
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Upstream has announced a critical security fix for element-web and element-desktop 1.8.2 on 2021-09-10:
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/09/10/pre-disclosure-upcoming-critical-fix-for-several-popular-matrix-clients/

The fixed version 1.8.4 has just been released:
https://github.com/vector-im/element-desktop/releases/tag/v1.8.4
https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/releases/tag/v1.8.4

The actual security fix seems to be this one:
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/commit/894c24880da0e1cc81818f51c0db80e3c9fb2be9

I have attached an updated PKGBUILD which also updates the sed pattern for replacing the electron version in packages.json for element-desktop.
   PKGBUILD (3.8 KiB)
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Closed by  Jonas Witschel (diabonas)
Monday, 13 September 2021, 15:05 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  element-{desktop,web} 1.8.4-1
Comment by Pascal Ernster (hardfalcon) - Monday, 13 September 2021, 13:03 GMT
Sorry, had a bug in the PKGBUILD, here's the fixed version.
   PKGBUILD (3.7 KiB)
Comment by Jonas Witschel (diabonas) - Monday, 13 September 2021, 15:04 GMT
Thank you for the report and the PKGBUILD! I have pushed an updated version to the repositories.

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