DEBIAN-CVE-2021-32921

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-32921
Import Source
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JSON Data
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Upstream
Published
2021-05-13T16:15:08Z
Modified
2025-09-19T06:03:25Z
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.11.9. It does not use a constant-time algorithm for comparing certain secret strings when running under Lua 5.2 or later. This can potentially be used in a timing attack to reveal the contents of secret strings to an attacker.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / prosody

Package

Name
prosody
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/prosody?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.11.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / prosody

Package

Name
prosody
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/prosody?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.11.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / prosody

Package

Name
prosody
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/prosody?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.11.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / prosody

Package

Name
prosody
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/prosody?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.11.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}