jabberd SASL denial of service

jabberd-sasl-dos (25334) The risk level is classified as MediumMedium Risk

Description:

jabberd is vulnerable to a denial of service caused by improper handling of SASL negotiations. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a "response" stanza before an "auth" stanza to cause the service to crash.


Consequences:

Denial of Service

Remedy:

Upgrade to the latest version of jabberd (2.0s11 or later), available from the jabberd project Download Web page. See References.

For other distributions:
Apply the appropriate update for your system. See References.

References:

  • Apple Web site: About the security content of Security Update 2010-002 / Mac OS X v10.6.3.
  • jabberd project Download Web page: jabberd project.
  • BID-17155: Jabber Studio JabberD Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability
  • CVE-2006-1329: The SASL negotiation in Jabber Studio jabberd before 2.0s11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (c2s segfault) by sending a response stanza before an auth stanza.
  • RHSA-2008-0261: Moderate: Red Hat Network Satellite Server security update
  • RHSA-2008-0263: Low: Red Hat Network Proxy Server security update
  • RHSA-2008-0523: Low: Red Hat Network Proxy Server security update
  • RHSA-2008-0524: Low: Red Hat Network Satellite Server security update
  • SA19281: jabberd SASL Negotiation Denial of Service Vulnerability
  • VUPEN/ADV-2006-1009: Jabberd SASL Negotiation response Stanza Denial of Service Vulnerability

Platforms Affected:

  • Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.8
  • Apple Mac OS X Server 10.6
  • Apple Mac OS X Server 10.6.1
  • Apple Mac OS X Server 10.6.2
  • jabberd project jabberd prior to 2.0s9
  • RedHat Network Proxy 4.2
  • RedHat Network Proxy 5.0
  • RedHat Network Satellite Server 4.2
  • RedHat Network Satellite Server 5.0

Reported:

Mar 20, 2006

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