CVE-2011-1757

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductBrad Fitzpatrick Djabberd
PublishedJun 21, 2011
First seenJun 21, 2011

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
brad_fitzpatrick djabberdv ≤ 0.84, 0.80, 0.81, 0.82, 0.83—

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