CVE-2017-18265

published 2018-05-09

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…

Priority P4 32 high 7.5 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A H

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

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	prosody	< prosody 0.10.0-1 (bookworm)	prosody 0.10.0-1 (bookworm)
prosody	prosody	< 0.10.0	0.10.0
prosody	prosody	>= 0 < 0.10.0-1	0.10.0-1
prosody	prosody	>= 0 < 0.10.0-1	0.10.0-1
prosody	prosody	>= 0 < 0.10.0-1	0.10.0-1
prosody	prosody	>= 0 < 0.10.0-1	0.10.0-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 7.5 HIGH

vendor_debian 7.5 HIGH

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