CVE-2011-2532

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The json.decode function in util/json.lua in Prosody 0.8.x before 0.8.1 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via invalid JSON data, as demonstrated by truncated data.

The json.decode function in util/json.lua in Prosody 0.8.x before 0.8.1 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via invalid JSON data, as demonstrated by truncated data.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 13 years ago

2011-06-22 21:55:00

Last updated 13 years ago

2011-06-28 04:00:00

Affected Software

Prosody 0.8.0

0.8.0

References

http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/

Patch

http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/20979f124ad9

Patch

http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1

Patch

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