CVE-2021-32918

Description

An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.11.9. Default settings are susceptible to remote unauthenticated denial-of-service (DoS) attacks via memory exhaustion when running under Lua 5.2 or Lua 5.3.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4916

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-15

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LWJ2DG2DFJOEFEWOUN26IMYYWGSA2ZEE/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GUN63AHEWB2WRROJHU3BVJRWLONCT2B7/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MFFBZWXKPZEVZNQSVJNCUE7WRF3T7DG/

https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.9-released/

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/14/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3