High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published May 9, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

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

Prosody/Prosody2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <0.10.0
- (no CPE)range: <0.10.0
Debian/linux
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bjc/Prosodyinferred
Range: <0.10.0
Debian/lua-socketllm-create
Range: stretch

Patches

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References

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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