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CVE-2011-2205
Published: Jun 22, 2011
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/
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http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4
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prosody-xml-dos(67884)
vdb-entry
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http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d
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[oss-security] 20110615 Re: CVE Request: prosody DoS, djabberd external entity injection
mailing-list
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44852
third-party-advisory
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http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1
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[oss-security] 20110614 CVE Request: prosody DoS, djabberd external entity injection
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST
48125
vdb-entry
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