Bug 217234 – net-im/openfire <3.5.0 Denial of Service (CVE-2008-1728)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-04-10 23:23:54 UTC]

Secunia:

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Openfire, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error and can be
exploited to cause a DoS.

The vulnerability is reported in version 3.4.5. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.5.0.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.igniterealtime.org/issues/browse/JM-1289

[Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-04-10 23:24:26 UTC]

3.5.0 is already in the tree, good to go stable?

[Comment 2 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-04-12 16:56:27 UTC]

Vulnerability: It cannot handle clients that fail to read 
messages, and has no limit on their session's send buffer.

http://www.igniterealtime.org/fisheye/changelog/svn-org?cs=10031

[Comment 3 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-04-14 02:11:33 UTC]

net-irc/humpback, is 3.5.0_rc1 good to go stable?

[Comment 4 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-04-15 22:57:58 UTC]

Arches, please test and mark stable:
=net-im/openfire-3.5.0
Target keywords : "amd64 release x86"

[Comment 5 Markus Meier 2008-04-17 01:01:09 UTC]

amd64/x86 stable, last arches.

[Comment 6 Matthias Geerdsen (RETIRED) 2008-04-17 10:36:21 UTC]

ready for GLSA vote

/me votes yes

[Comment 7 Tobias Heinlein (RETIRED) 2008-04-17 20:08:44 UTC]

Voting YES as well and filing request.

[Comment 8 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2008-04-21 08:09:13 UTC]

Fixed in release snapshot.

[Comment 9 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-04-23 16:38:05 UTC]

GLSA 200804-26