ejabberd: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background

ejabberd is the Erlang jabber daemon.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ejabberd. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

ejabberd allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition with the result of either crashing the daemon or the whole system by causing memory and CPU consumption.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All ejabberd users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/ejabberd-2.1.9"