Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2033-1 ejabberd -- heap overflow
- Date Reported:
- 15 Apr 2010
- Affected Packages:
- ejabberd
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 568383.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-0305. - More information:
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It was discovered that in ejabberd, a distributed XMPP/Jabber server written in Erlang, a problem in ejabberd_c2s.erl allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service by sending a large number of c2s (client2server) messages; that triggers an overload of the queue, which in turn causes a crash of the ejabberd daemon.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.1-6+lenny2.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.2-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.2-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your ejabberd packages.
- Fixed in:
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Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny2.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny2_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny2_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny2_arm.deb
- ARM EABI:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny2_armel.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny2_ia64.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ejabberd/ejabberd_2.0.1-6+lenny2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.