jabberd SASL Negotiation Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19281
Release Date: 2006-03-20
Last Update: 2006-03-22
Popularity: 5,235 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:jabberd 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1329


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in jabberd, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of SASL negotiation. This can be exploited to cause a crash by sending a "response" stanza before an "auth" stanza.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.0.

Solution:
Update to version 2.0s11.
http://jabberstudio.org/projects/jabberd2/releases/view.php?id=826

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Changelog:
2006-03-22: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.jabber.admin/27372


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