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<glsa id="200409-31">
  <title>jabberd 1.x: Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    The jabberd server was found to be vulnerable to a remote Denial of Service
    attack.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">jabberd</product>
  <announced>2004-09-23</announced>
  <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised>
  <bug>64741</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-im/jabberd" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.4.3-r4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">1.4.3-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Jabber is a set of streaming XML protocols enabling message, presence,
    and other structured information exchange between two hosts. jabberd is
    the original implementation of the Jabber protocol server.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Jose Antonio Calvo found a defect in routines handling XML parsing of
    incoming data. jabberd 1.x may crash upon reception of invalid data on
    any socket connection on which XML is parsed.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker may send a specific sequence of bytes to an open
    socket to crash the jabberd server, resulting in a Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All jabberd users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync
    
    # emerge -pv "&gt;=net-im/jabberd-1.4.3-r4"
    # emerge "&gt;=net-im/jabberd-1.4.3-r4"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://www.jabber.org/pipermail/jabberd/2004-September/002004.html">Vulnerability disclosure</uri>
    <uri link="https://www.jabber.org/pipermail/jadmin/2004-September/018046.html">Jabber announcement</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1378">CVE-2004-1378</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2004-09-21T11:27:04Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2004-09-21T15:51:07Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2004-09-22T17:38:09Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>
