Denial of Service Vulnerability in Prosody 0.8.x

CVE-2011-2532 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The json.decode function in util/json.lua in Prosody 0.8.x before 0.8.1 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via invalid JSON data, as demonstrated by truncated data.

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