CVE-2011-2205 | BDVDB-2026-46462 Detail
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44852
- http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.