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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1qNXFoLWNwM3AtMmg4N84AAek4

Ignite Realtime Openfire vulnerable to XMPPbomb attack

nio/XMLLightweightParser.java in Ignite Realtime Openfire before 3.9.2 does not properly restrict the processing of compressed XML elements, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j5qh-cp3p-2h87
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: almost 2 years ago
Updated: 9 months ago

Identifiers: GHSA-j5qh-cp3p-2h87, CVE-2014-2741
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2741
• http://community.igniterealtime.org/thread/52317
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/495476
• https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire/commit/3aec383e07ee893b77396fe946766bbd3758af77
• https://web.archive.org/web/20140407092132/http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas
• https://web.archive.org/web/20140705161237/http://fisheye.igniterealtime.org/changelog/openfiregit?cs=3aec383e07ee893b77396fe946766bbd3758af77
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j5qh-cp3p-2h87

Repository: https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire
Blast Radius: 0.0

Affected Packages