Bug 1086079 (CVE-2014-2746) - CVE-2014-2746 tigase-server: resource consumption via compressed XMPP messages
Summary: CVE-2014-2746 tigase-server: resource consumption via compressed XMPP messages
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2014-2746
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1086080
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-04-10 04:52 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:15 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: tigase 5.2.1
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:32:24 UTC
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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.
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