Jabber Studio jabberd SASL Negotiation Remote DoS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21120

Synopsis

The remote instant messaging server is affected by a denial of service issue.

Description

The remote host is running jabberd, an open source messaging system based on the Jabber protocol.

The version of jabberd installed on the remote host suffers a segfault when a client sends a SASL 'response' stanza before a SASL 'auth' stanza. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can leverage this flaw to crash the application's c2s component, thereby denying service to legitimate users.

Solution

Upgrade to jabberd 2s11 or later.

See Also

https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/jadmin/2006-March/023687.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21120

File Name: jabberd_sasl_stanza_dos.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: remote

Published: 3/23/2006

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:jabberstudio:jabberd

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1329

BID: 17155