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GHSA-35CW-298H-R635

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 01:59 – Updated: 2025-04-11 03:48

Details

expat_erl.c in ejabberd before 2.1.7 and 3.x before 3.0.0-alpha-3, and exmpp before 0.9.7, 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.

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  "id": "GHSA-35cw-298h-r635",
  "modified": "2025-04-11T03:48:01Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T01:59:37Z",
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CVE-2011-1753 (GCVE-0-2011-1753)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-06-21 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:37

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

12 references

URL	Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2248	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/release_no…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/44765	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://git.process-one.net/ejabberd/mainline/com…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.ejabberd.im/ejabberd-2.1.7	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700454	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/44807	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48072	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/45120	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Date Public

2011-05-31 00:00

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GHSA-35CW-298H-R635

CVE-2011-1753 (GCVE-0-2011-1753)

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