GLSA 201206-10: ejabberd: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Severity:normal
Title:ejabberd: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities
Date:06/21/2012
Bugs: #308047, #370201, #386075
ID:201206-10

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ejabberd, the worst of which allowing for remote Denial of Service.

Background

ejabberd is the Erlang jabber daemon.

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected Architecture(s)
net-im/ejabberd < 2.1.9 >= 2.1.9 All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ejabberd. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

ejabberd allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition with the result of either crashing the daemon or the whole system by causing memory and CPU consumption.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All ejabberd users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/ejabberd-2.1.9"
    

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-10.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

Copyright 2010 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s). The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

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