CVE-2017-18265

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability77. percentile1.7%
ProductProsody
PublishedMay 9, 2018
First seenMay 9, 2018

How to fix

Update
  • prosody prosody0.10.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
prosody prosodyv < 0.10.00.10.0
debian debian_linux9.0—

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