CVE-2017-18265 Affecting prosody package, versions <0.9.12-2+deb9u2build0.17.10.1
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- published9 May 2018
- disclosed9 May 2018
Introduced: 9 May 2018
CVE-2017-18265 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:17.10 prosody to version 0.9.12-2+deb9u2build0.17.10.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream prosody package and not the prosody package as distributed by Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:17.10 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-18265
- https://bugs.debian.org/875829
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4198
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18265
- https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/176b7f4e4ac9
- https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/adfffc5b4e2a
- https://prosody.im/issues/issue/987