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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
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 ↗