Bug 559909

Summary:	ejabberd: Remote DoS via flood of client2server messages
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bressers, lemenkov
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB-1173
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-01-29 10:31:59 UTC

Remotely exploitable DoS from XMPP client to ejabberd server
via flood of "client2server" messages (causing the message queue on
the server to get overloaded, leading to server crash) has been found.

Track of the incident:
  https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB-1173

Upstream patches against v2.1:
  https://forge.process-one.net/rdiff/ejabberd/branches/ejabberd-2.1.x/src/configure?r1=2688&r2=2936&u&N
  https://forge.process-one.net/rdiff/ejabberd/branches/ejabberd-2.1.x/src/ejabberd_c2s.erl?r1=2911&r2=2936&u&N

CVE Request:
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/29/1

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2010-03-22 19:13:20 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 559921 ***