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Asymmetric denial of service In prosody

Description

Prosody before 0.9.4 does not properly restrict the processing of compressed XML elements, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack, related to core/portmanager.lua and util/xmppstream.lua.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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