CVE-2014-4814 Information

Description

IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1.0 through 6.1.0.6 CF27 6.1.5 through 6.1.5.3 CF27 7.0 through 7.0.0.2 CF28 8.0 through 8.0.0.1 CF14 and 8.5.0 before CF03 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion which allows remote authenticated users 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://secunia.com/advisories/59740 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70758 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI24622 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21684651 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95391