Debian DSA-5047-1 : prosody - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 156768

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 10 / 11 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5047 advisory.

Matthew Wild discovered that the WebSockets code in Prosody, a lightweight Jabber/XMPP server, was susceptible to denial of service. For the oldstable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 0.11.2-1+deb10u3. For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 0.11.9-2+deb11u1. We recommend that you upgrade your prosody packages. For the detailed security status of prosody please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/prosody

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the prosody packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 0.11.9-2+deb11u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 156768

File Name: debian_DSA-5047.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/16/2022

Updated: 1/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0217

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:prosody

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-0217

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