FKIE_CVE-2011-2205

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2011-06-22 21:55 - Updated: 2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8dPatch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/44852Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8dPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/44852Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
prosody prosody *
prosody prosody 0.1.0
prosody prosody 0.2.0
prosody prosody 0.3.0
prosody prosody 0.4.0
prosody prosody 0.4.1
prosody prosody 0.4.2
prosody prosody 0.5.0
prosody prosody 0.5.1
prosody prosody 0.5.2
prosody prosody 0.6
prosody prosody 0.6.0
prosody prosody 0.6.1
prosody prosody 0.7
prosody prosody 0.7.0
prosody prosody 0.8
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