GSD-2011-2205

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:19
Details
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.
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CVE-2011-2205
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