CVE-2017-18265

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    CVE-2017-18265

    Published: 9 May 2018Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://prosody.im/issues/issue/987, https://bugs.debian.org/875829, https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/adfffc5b4e2a, https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/176b7f4e4ac9, https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4198

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

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    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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