CVE-2014-2745
Prosody before 0.9.4 does not properly restrict the processing of compressed XML elements, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack, related to core/portmanager.lua and util/xmppstream.lua.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 7.8 High
- Status
- Modified - security@debian.org
- Published
- 2014-04-11
- Last modified
- 2024-08-06
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Affected products
References
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/1107d66d2ab2
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/a97591d2e1ad
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57710
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895
- http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/
