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Debian LTS: Security Advisory for prosody (DLA-2687-1)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update for the 'prosody' package(s) announced via the DLA-2687-1 advisory.
Insight
Insight
Two security issues have been discovered in prosody: CVE-2021-32917 The proxy65 component allows open access by default, even if neither of the users has an XMPP account on the local server, allowing unrestricted use of the server's bandwidth. CVE-2021-32921 Authentication module does not use a constant-time algorithm for comparing certain secret strings when running under Lua 5.2 or later. This can potentially be used in a timing attack to reveal the contents of secret strings to an attacker.
Affected Software
Affected Software
'prosody' package(s) on Debian Linux.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.12-2+deb9u3. We recommend that you upgrade your prosody packages.