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Debian: CVE-2021-32918: prosody -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2021-32918: prosody -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/13/2021
Created
05/20/2021
Added
05/19/2021
Modified
05/25/2021

Description

An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.11.9. Default settings are susceptible to remote unauthenticated denial-of-service (DoS) attacks via memory exhaustion when running under Lua 5.2 or Lua 5.3.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-prosody

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