CVE-2021-32918

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-32918
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-05-13 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:35:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Lua Lua 5.2.0 - All All
Application Lua Lua 5.3.0 - All All
Application Prosody Prosody All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: prosody-0.11.9-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Prosody 0.11.9 released | Prosodical Thoughts MISC blog.prosody.im
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: prosody-0.11.9-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
oss-security - Prosody XMPP server advisory 2021-05-12 (multiple vulnerabilities) MLIST www.openwall.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4916-1 prosody DEBIAN www.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: prosody-0.11.9-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: prosody-0.11.9-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: prosody-0.11.9-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
oss-security - Re: Prosody XMPP server advisory 2021-05-12 (multiple vulnerabilities) MLIST www.openwall.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: prosody-0.11.9-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Prosŏdy IM: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202105-15) — Gentoo security MISC security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178602 Debian Security Update for prosody (DSA 4916-1)
  • 179847 Debian Security Update for prosody (CVE-2021-32918)
  • 281156 Fedora Security Update for prosody (FEDORA-2021-498be8f560)
  • 281157 Fedora Security Update for prosody (FEDORA-2021-b5d8c6d086)
  • 281158 Fedora Security Update for prosody (FEDORA-2021-a33f6e36e1)
  • 501226 Alpine Linux Security Update for prosody
  • 690138 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for prosody (fc75570a-b417-11eb-a23d-c7ab331fd711)
  • 710569 Gentoo Linux Prosody IM Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202105-15)
  • 750212 OpenSUSE Security Update for prosody (openSUSE-SU-2021:0728-1)
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