Vulnerability CVE-2011-1755


Published: 2011-06-20   Modified: 2012-02-13

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.

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
Jabber -> Jabberd2 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700390
http://www.mail-archive.com/jabberd2@lists.xiaoka.com/msg01655.html
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/9197650
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/67770
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48250
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0882.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0881.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002
http://secunia.com/advisories/45112
http://secunia.com/advisories/44957
http://secunia.com/advisories/44787
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
http://codex.xiaoka.com/svn/jabberd2/tags/jabberd-2.2.14/ChangeLog

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