CVE-2014-2741 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compression
Description
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-2741
Several XMPP server implementations that support application-layer compression (XEP-0138) suffer from an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability (CWE-400). This vulnerability can be remotely exploited by attackers to mount Denial-of-Service attacks by sending highly-compressed XML elements over XMPP streams.
The vulnerability was reported by Giancarlo Pellegrino. This report was written by Giancarlo Pellegrino with assistance from Peter Saint-Andre.
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Daryl Herzmann
April 17, 2014, 8:09 PM
Daryl Herzmann
April 17, 2014, 8:09 PM
Marking as fixed, added this after the commit so to ensure it hits the changelog
