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CVE-2017-18265

Date: May 9, 2018

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.

Language: LUA

Severity Score

Related Resources (9)

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-18265
https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/176b7f4e4ac9
https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/adfffc5b4e2a
https://bugs.debian.org/875829
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18265
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18265
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4198
https://prosody.im/issues/issue/987
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-18265

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Data Handling

CWE-19

Insufficient Information

NVD-CWE-noinfo

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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