plugins/mod_compression.lua in (1) Prosody before 0.9.4 and (2) Lightwitch Metronome through 3.4 negotiates stream compression while a session is unauthenticated, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via compressed XML elements in an XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2895-2 prosody regression update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-2771 plugins/mod_compression.lua in (1) Prosody before 0.9.4 and (2) Lightwitch Metronome through 3.4 negotiates stream compression while a session is unauthenticated, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via compressed XML elements in an XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T10:21:36.075Z

Reserved: 2014-04-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-2744

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2014-04-11T01:55:06.663

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2014-2744

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