National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1755

Overview

jabberd2 before 2.2.14 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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700390

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700390

External Source: MLIST

Name: [jabberd2] 20110531 jabberd-2.2.14 release

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.mail-archive.com/jabberd2@lists.xiaoka.com/msg01655.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2011:0741

Hyperlink:https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/9197650

External Source: XF

Name: jabberd-xml-entity-dos(67770)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/67770

External Source: BID

Name: 48250

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48250

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:0882

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0882.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:0881

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0881.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002

Hyperlink:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45112

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45112

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 44957

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/44957

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 44787

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/44787

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-7818

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061482.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-7805

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061458.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-7801

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061341.html

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2011-10-12-3

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://codex.xiaoka.com/svn/jabberd2/tags/jabberd-2.2.14/ChangeLog

Hyperlink:http://codex.xiaoka.com/svn/jabberd2/tags/jabberd-2.2.14/ChangeLog