CVE-2014-2744 (GCVE-0-2014-2744)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-04-11 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:21
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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|---|---|
| http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncont… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/57710 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/ | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/b3b1c9da38fb | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
2014-04-04 00:00
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