CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-18265

Published: May 09, 2018 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Prosody Prosody * 0.10.0 (excluding)
Prosody Ubuntu artful *
Prosody Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Prosody Ubuntu trusty *
Prosody Ubuntu upstream *
Prosody Ubuntu xenial *

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