Detections
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CVE-2011-1755
high
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
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700390
http://www.mail-archive.com/jabberd2%40lists.xiaoka.com/msg01655.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061482.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061458.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061341.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html