CVE-2021-32918

NameCVE-2021-32918
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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-4916-1
Debian Bugs988668

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
prosodysourcebuster0.11.2-1+deb10u1DSA-4916-1
prosodysource(unstable)0.11.9-1988668

Notes

[stretch] - prosody <ignored> (Fix is consisting of many patches. Not appliable. Ingored)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1
https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20210512.txt
https://hg.prosody.im/trunk/rev/db8e41eb6eff
https://hg.prosody.im/trunk/rev/b0d8920ed5e5
https://hg.prosody.im/trunk/rev/929de6ade6b6
https://hg.prosody.im/trunk/rev/63fd4c8465fb
https://hg.prosody.im/trunk/rev/1937b3c3efb5
https://hg.prosody.im/trunk/rev/3413fea9e6db

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