CVE-2011-1755 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://codex.xiaoka.com/svn/jabberd2/tags/jabberd-2.2.14/ChangeLog http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061341.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061458.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061482.html http://secunia.com/advisories/44787 http://secunia.com/advisories/44957 http://secunia.com/advisories/45112 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002 http://www.mail-archive.com/jabberd2@lists.xiaoka.com/msg01655.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0881.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0882.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48250 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700390 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67770 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/9197650