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.
Published: 2011-06-21
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-1756 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.
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Brad Fitzpatrick Djabberd
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T00:26:22.116Z

Reserved: 2011-04-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-1757

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Status : Modified

Published: 2011-06-21T02:52:43.640

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2011-1757

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