{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18265","details":"Prosody before 0.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), related to an incompatibility with certain versions of the LuaSocket library, such as the lua-socket package from Debian stretch. The attacker needs to trigger a stream error. A crash can be observed in, for example, the c2s module.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:46:40Z","published":"2018-05-09T17:29:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-18265"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-18265"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://prosody.im/issues/issue/987"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.debian.org/875829"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/176b7f4e4ac9"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/adfffc5b4e2a"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18265"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"prosody","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/prosody@0.9.10-1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.9.8-1","0.9.9-1","0.9.10-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"0.9.10-1","binary_name":"prosody"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18265.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}