CVE-2014-2745 Information

Description

Prosody before 0.9.4 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 related to core/portmanager.lua and util/xmppstream.lua.

Reference

http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/ http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/1107d66d2ab2 http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/a97591d2e1ad http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1 http://secunia.com/advisories/57710 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895 http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/