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 Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Djabberd | Brad_fitzpatrick | * | 0.84 (including) |
| Djabberd | Brad_fitzpatrick | 0.80 (including) | 0.80 (including) |
| Djabberd | Brad_fitzpatrick | 0.81 (including) | 0.81 (including) |
| Djabberd | Brad_fitzpatrick | 0.82 (including) | 0.82 (including) |
| Djabberd | Brad_fitzpatrick | 0.83 (including) | 0.83 (including) |