Vulnerability CVE-2011-1754
Published: 2011-06-20   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
jabberd14 1.6.1.1 and earlier 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.

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Jabberd -> Jabberd14 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/67771
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48070
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2249
http://secunia.com/advisories/44795
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/j/jabberd14/jabberd14_1.6.1.1-5+squeeze1/changelog
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