10257 : Multiple Jabber Client Malformed Byte Sequence DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2004-09-19	2004-09-19

Description

jabberd and jadc2s contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered due to the parsing of XML messages. By sending a malformed byte sequence of 0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF to certain sockets, a remote attacker could cause the application to crash, resulting in a loss of availability.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified

Solution

Contact your vendor for an appropriate upgrade. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Rob Norris	jabberd	1.4.3
Rob Norris	jadc2s	0.9.0

References

Security Tracker: 1011383 1011384
Bugtraq ID: 11231
Secunia Advisory ID: 12636
ISS X-Force ID: 17466
CVE ID: 2004-1378 (see also: NVD)
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-09/0261.html
Vendor Specific Solution URL: http://devel.amessage.info/jabberd14/
http://devel.amessage.info/jadc2s/
Vendor URL: http://jabberd.jabberstudio.org/
http://jabberd.jabberstudio.org/1.4/doc/jadc2s
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://jabberstudio.org/pipermail/jabberd/2004-September/002004.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-31.xml

Tools & Filters

	18889

Credit

José Antonio Calvo - joshescomposlinux.org -

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-06-23 | Disagree?

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