CVE-2014-2743 Information

Description

plugins/mod_compression.lua in Lightwitch Metronome through 3.4 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.

Reference

http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1 http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/