CVE-2017-18265

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.

7.5

CVSS

Severity: High

CVSS 3.0 •

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 1.06% Top 25%

Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory prosody.im

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4198	vendor advisory technical description
https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/176b7f4e4ac9	patch
https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/adfffc5b4e2a	patch
https://prosody.im/issues/issue/987	vendor advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/875829	issue tracking mailing list

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2017-18265?: CVE-2017-18265 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2017-18265?: To fix CVE-2017-18265, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2017-18265 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2017-18265 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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