CVE-2014-2745

NameCVE-2014-2745
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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-2895-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
prosody (PTS)buster, buster (security)0.11.2-1+deb10u4fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye0.11.9-2+deb11u2fixed
bookworm0.12.3-1fixed
sid, trixie0.12.4-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
prosodysourcewheezy0.8.2-4+deb7u1DSA-2895-1
prosodysource(unstable)0.9.4-1

Notes

[squeeze] - prosody <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/a97591d2e1ad
http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/1107d66d2ab2

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