CVE-2011-1757 - DJabberd 0.84 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows r

CVE-2011-1757

Summary

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.

References

http://groups.google.com/group/djabberd/msg/e3b250f3c1877ede?dmode=source

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:a:brad_fitzpatrick:djabberd:0.80:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:brad_fitzpatrick:djabberd:0.80:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:brad_fitzpatrick:djabberd:0.81:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:brad_fitzpatrick:djabberd:0.81:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:brad_fitzpatrick:djabberd:0.82:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:brad_fitzpatrick:djabberd:0.82:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:brad_fitzpatrick:djabberd:0.83:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:brad_fitzpatrick:djabberd:0.83:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:brad_fitzpatrick:djabberd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:brad_fitzpatrick:djabberd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	5.0 (as of 28-06-2011 - 04:00)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

CWE-399

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	LOW	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
NONE	NONE	PARTIAL

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

refmap via4

mlist

[djabberd] 20110604 CVE-2011-1757: djabberd billion laughs vulnerability

Last major update

28-06-2011 - 04:00

Published

21-06-2011 - 02:52

Last modified

28-06-2011 - 04:00