CVE-2017-18265 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 pac...
HighCVSS 7.5
EPSS 1.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Exploit status
- No public exploit known
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.
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| debian/prosody(Debian:12) | < 0.10.0-1 | 0.10.0-1 |
| debian/prosody(Debian:13) | < 0.10.0-1 | 0.10.0-1 |
| debian/prosody(Debian:14) | < 0.10.0-1 | 0.10.0-1 |
| prosody | < 0.10.0 | 0.10.0 |
| debian linux | = 9.0 | No fix listed |
References
- Debian Security Tracker CVE-2017-18265 vendor-advisory
- bugs.debian.org issue-tracking mailing-list
- hg.prosody.im patch
- hg.prosody.im patch
- prosody.im vendor-advisory
- DSA-4198 technical-description vendor-advisory