CVE-2011-2205

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.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Prosody	Prosody	*	0.8.0 (including)
Prosody	Prosody	0.1.0 (including)	0.1.0 (including)
Prosody	Prosody	0.2.0 (including)	0.2.0 (including)
Prosody	Prosody	0.3.0 (including)	0.3.0 (including)
Prosody	Prosody	0.4.0 (including)	0.4.0 (including)
Prosody	Prosody	0.4.1 (including)	0.4.1 (including)
Prosody	Prosody	0.4.2 (including)	0.4.2 (including)
Prosody	Prosody	0.5.0 (including)	0.5.0 (including)
Prosody	Prosody	0.5.1 (including)	0.5.1 (including)
Prosody	Prosody	0.5.2 (including)	0.5.2 (including)
Prosody	Prosody	0.6 (including)	0.6 (including)
Prosody	Prosody	0.6.0 (including)	0.6.0 (including)
Prosody	Prosody	0.6.1 (including)	0.6.1 (including)
Prosody	Prosody	0.7 (including)	0.7 (including)
Prosody	Prosody	0.7.0 (including)	0.7.0 (including)
Prosody	Prosody	0.8 (including)	0.8 (including)
Prosody	Ubuntu	lucid	*
Prosody	Ubuntu	maverick	*
Prosody	Ubuntu	upstream	*

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2205
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/399.html

Affected Software

References