CVE-2014-5265 Information

Description

The Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library as used in WordPress before 3.9.2 and Drupal 6.x before 6.33 and 7.x before 7.31 permits entity declarations without considering 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.

Reference

http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404 https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/ https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004