CVE-2014-2744

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.

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://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3