CVE-2011-1757

DJabberd 0.84 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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2011-06-21

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Djabberd (Brad Fitzpatrick)

References

• http://groups.google.com/group/djabberd/msg/e3b250f3c1877ede?dmode=source