high7.5
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 LuaS…
Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Prosody | Prosody | before 0.10.0 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 9.0 |
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- 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
- 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