CVE-2014-2743

CVE-2014-2743

EPSS 1.9%

plugins/mod_compression.lua in Lightwitch Metronome through 3.4 does not properly restrict the processing of compressed XML elements, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack.

Affected products

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References

http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1 http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/