CVE-2014-2744 | BDVDB-2026-60865 Detail
Description#
plugins/mod_compression.lua in (1) Prosody before 0.9.4 and (2) Lightwitch Metronome through 3.4 negotiates stream compression while a session is unauthenticated, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via compressed XML elements in an XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57710
- http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/b3b1c9da38fb
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.