CVE-2011-1755

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

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

http://www.mail-archive.com/jabberd2%40lists.xiaoka.com/msg01655.html

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3