[ GLSA 201206-10 ] ejabberd: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: ejabberd: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities (GLSA 201206-10)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: June 21, 2012
Bug(s): #308047, #370201, #386075
ID: 201206-10

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ejabberd, the worst of
which allowing for remote Denial of Service.


Background

ejabberd is the Erlang jabber daemon.

Affected Packages

Package: net-im/ejabberd
Vulnerable: < 2.1.9
Unaffected: >= 2.1.9
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ejabberd. Please review
the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.


Impact

ejabberd allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition
with the result of either crashing the daemon or the whole system by
causing memory and CPU consumption.


Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All ejabberd users should upgrade to the latest version: