UBUNTU-CVE-2021-32918

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-32918

    Published: 13 May 2021Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-32918

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-32918, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1, https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20210512.txt, https://hg.prosody.im/trunk/rev/db8e41eb6eff, https://hg.prosody.im/trunk/rev/b0d8920ed5e5, https://hg.prosody.im/trunk/rev/929de6ade6b6, https://hg.prosody.im/trunk/rev/63fd4c8465fb, https://hg.prosody.im/trunk/rev/1937b3c3efb5, https://hg.prosody.im/trunk/rev/3413fea9e6db, https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.9-released/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-32918

    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
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