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CVE-2011-1757 DJabberd 0.84 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...

MediumCVSS 5.0 EPSS 1.1%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

Description

DJabberd 0.84 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.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
brad fitzpatrick djabberd <= 0.84 No fix listed
brad fitzpatrick djabberd = 0.80 No fix listed
brad fitzpatrick djabberd = 0.81 No fix listed
brad fitzpatrick djabberd = 0.82 No fix listed
brad fitzpatrick djabberd = 0.83 No fix listed

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