CVE-2011-2205

 

Published at: - 22-06-2011 11:55

Last modified: - 22-09-2022 03:00

Total changes: - 2

Description

Prosody before 0.8.1 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.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

 

Verification logic

 

Reference

• http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/
• 44852-Vendor Advisory
• http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4
• 48125-
• http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d
• http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1
• [oss-security] 20110615 Re: CVE Request: prosody DoS, djabberd external entity injection-
• [oss-security] 20110614 CVE Request: prosody DoS, djabberd external entity injection-
• prosody-xml-dos(67884)-

 

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CVE-2011-2205

 

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