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Debian DSA-2249-1 : jabberd14 - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55037

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Wouter Coekaerts discovered that jabberd14, an instant messaging server using the Jabber/XMPP protocol, is vulnerable to the so-called'billion laughs' attack because it does not prevent entity expansion on received data. This allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks against the service by sending specially crafted XML data to it.

The oldstable distribution (lenny), does not contain jabberd14.

Solution

Upgrade the jabberd14 packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.1.1-5+squeeze1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/jabberd14

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2249

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55037

File Name: debian_DSA-2249.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/10/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:jabberd14, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1754

DSA: 2249