CVE-2014-2745

Summary

CVECVE-2014-2745
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
DescriptionProsody 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
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
Prosody IM 0.9: revision 1107d66d2ab2: util.xmppstream: Implement stanza size limiting, default limit 10MB CONFIRM hg.prosody.im
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 0.9.4 released - Prosodical Thoughts CONFIRM blog.prosody.im
Security Advisory SA57710 - Debian update for prosody - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Prosody IM 0.9: revision a97591d2e1ad: portmanager: Make maximum read size configurable, and default to 4KB CONFIRM hg.prosody.im
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