CVE-2014-2744 | Mend Vulnerability Database

Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2014-2744

CVE-2014-2744

Published:April 11, 2014

Updated:May 07, 2026

plugins/mod_compression.lua in (1) Prosody before 0.9.4 and (2) Lightwitch Metronome through 3.4 negotiates stream compression while a session is unauthenticated, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via compressed XML elements in an XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack.

Related Resources (10)

http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411

http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-2744

http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/b3b1c9da38fb

http://secunia.com/advisories/57710

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1

http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-2744

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