CVE-2014-2745

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.

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3