Vulnerability CVE-2017-18265


Published: 2018-05-09

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.

Type:

CWE-noinfo

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Prosody -> Prosody 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
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

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