CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-2205

Published: Jun 22, 2011 | Modified: Aug 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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 *

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