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CVE-2011-1757

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 CP…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
Brad FitzpatrickDjabberd
through 0.84
Versions 0.80, 0.81, 0.82, 0.83

Weakness classification

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