CVE-2017-18265

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-18265
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-05-09 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionProsody before 0.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), related to an incompatibility with certain versions of the LuaSocket library, such as the lua-socket package from Debian stretch. The attacker needs to trigger a stream error. A crash can be observed in, for example, the c2s module.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody All All All All
Application Prosody Prosody All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
#875829 - prosody: CVE-2017-18265: crashed on error handling for stream errors - Debian Bug report logs MISC bugs.debian.org Issue Tracking, Mailing List
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4198-1 prosody DEBIAN www.debian.org Technical Description
#987 prosody 0.9.12 crashes since upgrade to debian 9 (stretch) (closed) - Prosody IM Issue Tracker MISC prosody.im Vendor Advisory
Prosody IM 0.9: 176b7f4e4ac9 MISC hg.prosody.im Patch
Prosody IM 0.9: adfffc5b4e2a MISC hg.prosody.im Patch
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