Bug 1086079 (CVE-2014-2746)

Summary:	CVE-2014-2746 tigase-server: resource consumption via compressed XMPP messages
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	extras-orphan
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Fixed In Version:	tigase 5.2.1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-04-10 04:52:35 UTC

A flaw was found in the way XMPP handles application-layer compression. An attacker could send crafted XMPP stanzas that would cause Tigase to use an excessive amount of CPU and memory. This issue has been fixed in version 5.2.1.

References:
http://www.tigase.org/content/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-highly-compressed-xmpp-messages
https://projects.tigase.org/projects/tigase-server/repository/revisions/7f5af2f8c5b97bbf9def66fbb9dd47746a7ac292
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/43

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-04-10 04:53:22 UTC

Created tigase-server tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1086080]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:32:24 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.