CVE-2021-32918

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    CVE-2021-32918

    Published: 13 May 2021Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.11.9. Default settings are susceptible to remote unauthenticated denial-of-service (DoS) attacks via memory exhaustion when running under Lua 5.2 or Lua 5.3.

    References: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MFFBZWXKPZEVZNQSVJNCUE7WRF3T7DG/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GUN63AHEWB2WRROJHU3BVJRWLONCT2B7/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LWJ2DG2DFJOEFEWOUN26IMYYWGSA2ZEE/, https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4916, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/14/2, https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.9-released/, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-15

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

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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
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    Availability
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