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Gentoo: 201206-10 Normal: ejabberd Denial of Service Threats

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2012
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several denial of service vulnerabilities identified in ejabberd may lead to system instability. Users are advised to upgrade promptly.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ejabberd, the worst of which allowing for remote Denial of Service.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ejabberd. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Gentoo remote attack update recommendation normal severity ejabberd

Resolution

All ejabberd users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/ejabberd-2.1.9"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-0305 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0305 [ 2 ] CVE-2011-1753 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1753 [ 3 ] CVE-2011-4320 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4320

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201206-10
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: ejabberd: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities
Date: June 21, 2012
Bugs: #308047, #370201, #386075
ID: 201206-10

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Gentoo remote attack update recommendation normal severity ejabberd

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ejabberd, the worst of which allowing for remote Denial of Service.

Background

ejabberd is the Erlang jabber daemon.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-im/ejabberd < 2.1.9 >= 2.1.9

Impact

===== ejabberd allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition with the result of either crashing the daemon or the whole system by causing memory and CPU consumption.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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