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TITLE:
jabberd "jid.c" Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16291

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16291/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
Michael has reported some vulnerabilities in jabberd, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a
vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to three boundary errors in jid.c
when parsing JID strings with overly long user, host, or resource
components. This can be exploited to crash the server or potentially
execute arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0s9.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Michael (zcyberian)

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://j2.openaether.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99

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