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CVE-2014-2745

Published: Apr 11, 2014

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/a97591d2e1ad

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/1107d66d2ab2

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

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

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

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