CVE-2011-2205
First published: Wed Jun 22 2011(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Prosody Prosody | =0.6.0 | |
| Prosody Prosody | =0.6 | |
| Prosody Prosody | =0.4.2 | |
| Prosody Prosody | =0.8 | |
| Prosody Prosody | =0.5.0 | |
| Prosody Prosody | =0.6.1 | |
| Prosody Prosody | =0.5.2 | |
| Prosody Prosody | =0.7 | |
| Prosody Prosody | =0.4.0 | |
| Prosody Prosody | =0.7.0 | |
| Prosody Prosody | =0.3.0 | |
| Prosody Prosody | =0.2.0 | |
| Prosody Prosody | =0.4.1 | |
| Prosody Prosody | =0.1.0 | |
| Prosody Prosody | <=0.8.0 | |
| Prosody Prosody | =0.5.1 |
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Reference Links
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44852
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d
- http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884
- collector/nvd-historical
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/severity
- agent/author
- agent/weakness
- agent/references
- agent/type
- agent/description
- agent/event
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/remedy
- agent/tags
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/prosody
- canonical/prosody prosody
- version/prosody prosody/0.6.0
- version/prosody prosody/0.6
- version/prosody prosody/0.4.2
- version/prosody prosody/0.8
- version/prosody prosody/0.5.0
- version/prosody prosody/0.6.1
- version/prosody prosody/0.5.2
- version/prosody prosody/0.7
- version/prosody prosody/0.4.0
- version/prosody prosody/0.7.0
- version/prosody prosody/0.3.0
- version/prosody prosody/0.2.0
- version/prosody prosody/0.4.1
- version/prosody prosody/0.1.0
- version/prosody prosody/0.8.0
- version/prosody prosody/0.5.1