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 testing distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.2-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your ejabberd packages.
Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an au...
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