CVE-2011-1754 Information

Description

jabberd14 1.6.1.1 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.

Reference

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/j/jabberd14/jabberd14_1.6.1.1-5+squeeze1/changelog http://secunia.com/advisories/44795 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2249 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48070 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67771