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CVE-2011-1755

Date: June 20, 2011

jabberd2 before 2.2.14 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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (19)

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0882.html

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061458.html

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002

Url: http://www.mail-archive.com/jabberd2%40lists.xiaoka.com/msg01655.html

Url: https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/9197650

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700390

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061482.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/45112

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0881.html

Url: http://codex.xiaoka.com/svn/jabberd2/tags/jabberd-2.2.14/ChangeLog

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/44957

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48250

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67770

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061341.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1755

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/44787

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2011-1755

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-1755

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

CWE-776

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2011-1755

Date: June 20, 2011

Language: C

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CVSS v3.1

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