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Security Notice: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with Highly-Compressed XMPP Stanzas

 Posted on April 4, 2014 |  1 minutes |  Miscellaneous |  stpeter

The XMPP Standards Foundation has published a security notice describing an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in several XMPP server implementations that support application-layer compression. Details can be found at https://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/.

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