| Name | CVE-2014-2744 |
| Description | plugins/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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-2895-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| lua-expat (PTS) | buster, bullseye | 1.3.0-4 | fixed |
| sid, trixie, bookworm | 1.5.1-3 | fixed | |
| prosody (PTS) | buster, buster (security) | 0.11.2-1+deb10u4 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 0.11.9-2+deb11u2 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 0.12.3-1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 0.12.4-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lua-expat | source | wheezy | 1.2.0-5+deb7u1 | |||
| lua-expat | source | (unstable) | 1.3.0-1 | |||
| prosody | source | wheezy | 0.8.2-4+deb7u1 | DSA-2895-1 | ||
| prosody | source | (unstable) | 0.9.4-1 |
[squeeze] - lua-expat <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[squeeze] - prosody <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/b3b1c9da38fb