CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-1755

7.5 HIGH Published 2011-06-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-06-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-776

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• jabberd2 jabberd2 (< 2.2.14) • fedoraproject fedora 13 • fedoraproject fedora 14 • fedoraproject fedora 15 • apple mac os x (< 10.6.8) • apple mac os x (>= 10.7.0 < 10.7.2) • apple mac os x server (< 10.6.8) • apple mac os x server (>= 10.7.0 < 10.7.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs weakness

References