Fedora EPEL 6 update for prosody

Published: 2014-04-23 | Updated: 2025-04-24

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2014-2745 CVE-2014-2744
CWE-ID	CWE-264 CWE-20
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software	Fedora Operating systems & Components / Operating system prosody Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component
Vendor	Fedoraproject

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

EUVDB-ID: #VU33664

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-2745

CWE-ID: CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Prosody before 0.9.4 does not properly restrict the processing of compressed XML elements, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack, related to core/portmanager.lua and util/xmppstream.lua.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's repository.

Vulnerable software versions

Fedora: 6.0

prosody: before 0.8.2-7.el6

CPE2.3

External links

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2014-1236

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) Input validation error

EUVDB-ID: #VU33663