CVE-2011-2205 Information

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.

Reference

http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/ http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4 http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1 http://secunia.com/advisories/44852 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884