CVE-2011-1756
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-06-21 01:00
Modified
2024-08-06 22:37
Severity ?
Summary
modules/xmpp/serv_xmpp.c in Citadel 7.86 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.
Impacted products
n/an/a
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