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Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.702895 |
Category: | Debian Local Security Checks |
Title: | Debian Security Advisory DSA 2895-1 (prosody - security update) |
Summary: | A denial-of-service vulnerability;has been reported in Prosody, a XMPP server. If compression is enabled, an;attacker might send highly-compressed XML elements (attack known as zip bomb);over XMPP streams and consume all the resources of the server.;;The SAX XML parser lua-expat is also affected by this issues. |
Description: | Summary: A denial-of-service vulnerability has been reported in Prosody, a XMPP server. If compression is enabled, an attacker might send highly-compressed XML elements (attack known as zip bomb) over XMPP streams and consume all the resources of the server. The SAX XML parser lua-expat is also affected by this issues. Affected Software/OS: prosody on Debian Linux Solution: For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.2-4+deb7u1 of prosody. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4-1 of prosody. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.0-5+deb7u1 of lua-expat. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.0-1 lua-expat. We recommend that you upgrade your prosody and lua-expat packages. CVSS Score: 7.8 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
Cross-Ref: |
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-2744 Debian Security Information: DSA-2895 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895 http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/ http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1 http://secunia.com/advisories/57710 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-2745 |
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