USN-4834-1: Prosody vulnerability

15 March 2021

Prosody could allow unintended access to network services.

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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.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04

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

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