GLSA-200409-31 : jabberd 1.x: Denial of Service vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 14799

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200409-31 (jabberd 1.x: Denial of Service vulnerability)

Jose Antonio Calvo found a defect in routines handling XML parsing of incoming data. jabberd 1.x may crash upon reception of invalid data on any socket connection on which XML is parsed.
Impact :

A remote attacker may send a specific sequence of bytes to an open socket to crash the jabberd server, resulting in a Denial of Service.
Workaround :

There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All jabberd users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge sync # emerge -pv '>=net-im/jabberd-1.4.3-r4' # emerge '>=net-im/jabberd-1.4.3-r4'

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 14799

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200409-31.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 9/23/2004

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:jabberd, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/19/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1378

GLSA: 200409-31

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