CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-18265
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-05-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
Affected configurations
• prosody prosody (< 0.10.0)
• debian debian linux 9.0
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/875829 Issue Tracking, Mailing List
- https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/176b7f4e4ac9 Patch
- https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/adfffc5b4e2a Patch
- https://prosody.im/issues/issue/987 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4198 Technical Description
- https://bugs.debian.org/875829 Issue Tracking, Mailing List
- https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/176b7f4e4ac9 Patch
- https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/adfffc5b4e2a Patch
- https://prosody.im/issues/issue/987 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4198 Technical Description