| Name | CVE-2017-18265 |
| Description | Prosody 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. |
| 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-4198-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 875829 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| prosody (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 0.11.9-2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 0.12.3-1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 0.12.4-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prosody | source | wheezy | (not affected) | |||
| prosody | source | jessie | (not affected) | |||
| prosody | source | stretch | 0.9.12-2+deb9u1 | DSA-4198-1 | ||
| prosody | source | (unstable) | 0.10.0-1 | 875829 |
[jessie] - prosody <not-affected> (Only exploitable with a LuaSocket version not in jessie)
[wheezy] - prosody <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://prosody.im/issues/issue/987