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Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-18265): prosody vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-18265): prosody vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/09/2018
Created
11/21/2024
Added
11/19/2024
Modified
11/19/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-prosody

References

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