USN-4834-1: Prosody vulnerability

Publication date

15 March 2021

Overview

Prosody could allow unintended access to network services.

Releases


Packages

  • prosody - Lightweight Jabber/XMPP server

Details

It was discovered that Prosody incorrectly validated the virtual host
associated with a user session across stream restarts. A remote attacker
could use this issue to gain unintended access to resources.

It was discovered that Prosody incorrectly validated the virtual host
associated with a user session across stream restarts. A remote attacker
could use this issue to gain unintended access to resources.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
18.04 LTS bionic prosody –  0.10.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1  

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