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CVE-2011-2205

Prosody before 0.8.1 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause

Prosody before 0.8.1 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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.01621
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Affected Products & Versions

2
prosody<= 0.8.0
prosodyall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

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MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD22 Jun 2011 · 09:55 PM
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References & Sources

9
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/Patch
http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4Patch
http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8dPatch
http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1Patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/44852Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
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