CVE-2014-2744

Summary

CVECVE-2014-2744
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-04-11 01:55:00 UTC
Updated2014-04-19 04:48:00 UTC
Descriptionplugins/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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Lightwitch Metronome All All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.1.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.2.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.3.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.4.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.4.1 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.4.2 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.5.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.5.1 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.5.2 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.6.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.6.1 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.6.2 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.7.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.8.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.8.1 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.8.2 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.9.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.9.1 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.9.2 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody All All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.1.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.2.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.3.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.4.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.4.1 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.4.2 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.5.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.5.1 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.5.2 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.6.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.6.1 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.6.2 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.7.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.8.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.8.1 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.8.2 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.9.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.9.1 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.9.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Re: Possible CVE Request: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compression MLIST openwall.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2895-1 prosody DEBIAN www.debian.org
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compression – The XMPP Standards Foundation MISC xmpp.org
oss-security - Re: (Openfire M-Link Metronome Prosody Tigase) Possible CVE Request: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compression MLIST openwall.com
Prosody IM 0.9: revision b3b1c9da38fb: mod_compression: Only allow compression on authenticated streams CONFIRM hg.prosody.im Exploit, Patch
code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411 CONFIRM code.lightwitch.org Exploit, Patch
Prosody 0.9.4 released - Prosodical Thoughts CONFIRM blog.prosody.im Vendor Advisory
Security Advisory SA57710 - Debian update for prosody - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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