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Fedora 19 : prosody-0.8.2-11.fc19 (2014-5586)

high Nessus Plugin ID 73846

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Added upstream patches to avoid resource consumption denial of service when using XMPP application-layer compression (#1085692)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected prosody package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085692

http://www.nessus.org/u?7942d741

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 73846

File Name: fedora_2014-5586.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/3/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:prosody

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/25/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2744, CVE-2014-2745

BID: 66723, 66724

FEDORA: 2014-5586