CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1753
5.0 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-06-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
expat_erl.c in ejabberd before 2.1.7 and 3.x before 3.0.0-alpha-3, and exmpp before 0.9.7, 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 configurations
• process-one ejabberd (<= 2.1.6)
• process-one ejabberd 0.9
• process-one ejabberd 0.9.1
• process-one ejabberd 0.9.8
• process-one ejabberd 1.0.0
• process-one ejabberd 1.1.0
• process-one ejabberd 1.1.1
• process-one ejabberd 1.1.1.0
• process-one ejabberd 1.1.1.1
• process-one ejabberd 1.1.2
• process-one ejabberd 1.1.3
• process-one ejabberd 1.1.14
• process-one ejabberd 2.0.0
• process-one ejabberd 2.0.1 2
• process-one ejabberd 2.0.2
• process-one ejabberd 2.0.3
• process-one ejabberd 2.0.4
• process-one ejabberd 2.0.5
• process-one ejabberd 2.1.0
• process-one ejabberd 2.1.1
• process-one ejabberd 2.1.2
• process-one ejabberd 2.1.3
• process-one ejabberd 2.1.4
• process-one ejabberd 2.1.5
• process-one ejabberd 3.0.0
• process-one exmpp (<= 0.9.6)
• process-one exmpp 0.9.1
• process-one exmpp 0.9.2
• process-one exmpp 0.9.3
• process-one exmpp 0.9.4
• process-one exmpp 0.9.5
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062099.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062145.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44765 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44807 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45120 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2248 www.debian.org
- http://www.ejabberd.im/ejabberd-2.1.7 Patch
- http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/release_notes/release_note_ejabberd_2.1.7/ www.process-one.net
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48072 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700454 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67769 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://git.process-one.net/ejabberd/mainline/commit/bd1df027c622e1f96f9eeaac612a6a956c1ff0b6 Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062099.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062145.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44765 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44807 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45120 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2248 www.debian.org
- http://www.ejabberd.im/ejabberd-2.1.7 Patch
- http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/release_notes/release_note_ejabberd_2.1.7/ www.process-one.net
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48072 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700454 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67769 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://git.process-one.net/ejabberd/mainline/commit/bd1df027c622e1f96f9eeaac612a6a956c1ff0b6 Patch