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CVE-2011-1755

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Description

jabberd2 before 2.2.14 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

References

http://codex.xiaoka.com/svn/jabberd2/tags/jabberd-2.2.14/ChangeLog

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061341.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061458.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061482.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/44787

http://secunia.com/advisories/44957

http://secunia.com/advisories/45112

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01655.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0881.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0882.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48250

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700390

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67770

https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/9197650

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2011-06-21

Updated: 2017-08-17

Type: CWE-399

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

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