Bug 559921 (CVE-2010-0305)

Summary: CVE-2010-0305 ejabberd: Remote DoS via flood of client2server messages
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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URL: https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB-1173
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-01-29 10:52:50 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 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-01-29 10:59:25 UTC
This issue affects the latest versions of ejabberd package, as shipped
with Fedora 11 (ejabberd-2.1.1-1.fc11) and 12 (ejabberd-2.1.1-1.fc12).

This issue affects the latest version of ejabberd package, as shipped
with EPEL-5 project (ejabberd-2.0.5-8.el5).

Please fix.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-01-29 13:33:18 UTC
ejabberd-2.1.2-2.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ejabberd-2.1.2-2.fc12

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-01-29 13:33:31 UTC
ejabberd-2.1.2-2.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ejabberd-2.1.2-2.fc11

Comment 5 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-01-31 14:49:48 UTC
This is CVE-2010-0305.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-02-05 01:19:37 UTC
ejabberd-2.1.2-2.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-02-05 01:20:07 UTC
ejabberd-2.1.2-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Josh Bressers 2010-03-22 19:12:21 UTC
*** Bug 559890 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Josh Bressers 2010-03-22 19:13:20 UTC
*** Bug 559909 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***