Hi all,
Over the last few weeks we’ve ended up getting a lot of attention from the security research community, which has been incredibly useful and massively appreciated in terms of contributions to improve the security of the reference Matrix implementations.
We’ve also set up an official Security Disclosure Policy to explain the process of reporting security issues to us safely via responsible disclosure - including a Hall of Fame to credit those who have done so. (Please mail [email protected] to remind us if we’ve forgotten you!).
Since we published the Hall of Fame yesterday, we’ve already been getting new entries and so we’re doing a set of security releases today to ensure they are mitigated asap. Unfortunately the work around this means that we’re running late in publishing the post mortem of the Apr 11 security incident - we are trying to get that out as soon as we can.
Sydent 1.0.3 has three security fixes:
If you are running Sydent as an identity server, you should update as soon as possible from https://github.com/matrix-org/sydent/releases/v1.0.3. We are not aware of any of these issues having been exploited maliciously in the wild.
Synapse 0.99.3.1 is a security update for two fixes:
You can update from https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases or similar as normal. We are not aware of any of these issues having been exploited maliciously in the wild.
(Synapse 0.99.3.2 was released shortly afterwards to fix a non-security issue with the Debian packaging)
Riot/Android has an important security fix which shipped over the course of the last week in various versions of the app:
The fix for this shipped on F-Droid since 0.8.28a, and on the Play Store, the fix is present in both v0.9.0 (the first version of the re-published Riot app) and v0.8.99 (the last version of the old Riot app, which told everyone to reinstall). Other forks of Riot which we’re aware of have also been informed and should be updated.
If you haven’t already updated, please do so now.