High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published May 9, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-18265
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.
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Affected products
3- Range: stretch
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/176b7f4e4ac9nvdPatch
- hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/adfffc5b4e2anvdPatch
- prosody.im/issues/issue/987nvdVendor Advisory
- bugs.debian.org/875829nvdIssue TrackingMailing List
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4198nvdTechnical Description
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