CVE-2017-18265 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://bugs.debian.org/875829 https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/176b7f4e4ac9 https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/adfffc5b4e2a https://prosody.im/issues/issue/987 https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4198

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5