CVE-2014-2745 | BDVDB-2026-60866 Detail
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.
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://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/a97591d2e1ad
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57710
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/1107d66d2ab2
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/
- 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.