• [SECURITY] [DSA 2248-1] ejabberd security update

    From Nico Golde@1:229/2 to All on Tue May 31 23:20:03 2011
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2248-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde
    March 31, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : ejabberd
    Vulnerability : denial of service
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE ID : CVE-2011-1753

    Wouter Coekaerts discovered that ejabberd, a distributed XMPP/Jabber server written in Erlang, is vulnerable to the so-called "billion laughs" attack because it does not prevent entity expansion on received data.
    This allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks against the service by sending specially crafted XML data to it.


    For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 2.0.1-6+lenny3.

    For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
    version 2.1.5-3+squeeze1.

    For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem will be fixed soon.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
    version 2.1.6-2.1.


    We recommend that you upgrade your ejabberd packages.

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
    these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
    found at: http://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: [email protected]

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