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CVE-2011-1755 (GCVE-0-2011-1755)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-06-21 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:37
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/44957 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/44787 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-08… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/9197650 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700390 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-08… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48250 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/45112 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mail-archive.com/jabberd2%40lists.xiao… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2011-06-01 00:00
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