[SA19281] jabberd SASL Negotiation Denial of Service Vulnerability

TITLE:
jabberd SASL Negotiation Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19281

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
jabberd 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/2730/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of
SASL negotiation. This can be exploited to cause a crash by sending a
"response" stanza before an "auth" stanza.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.0.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0s11.
http://jabberstudio.org/projects/jabberd2/releases/view.php?id=826

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.jabber.admin/27372

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