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CVE-2014-2743

Published: Apr 11, 2014

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

plugins/mod_compression.lua in Lightwitch Metronome through 3.4 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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/

x_refsource_MISC

http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411

x_refsource_CONFIRM

[oss-security] 20140408 Re: (Openfire M-Link Metronome Prosody Tigase) Possible CVE Request: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compression

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x_refsource_MLIST

[oss-security] 20140407 Re: Possible CVE Request: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compression

mailing-list

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