UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18265

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18265

    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18265

    Published: 9 May 2018Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-18265

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-18265, https://prosody.im/issues/issue/987, https://bugs.debian.org/875829, https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/176b7f4e4ac9, https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/adfffc5b4e2a, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18265

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: prosody

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.9.8-1
    0.9.9-1
    0.9.10-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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