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.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| prosody / prosody | 0.6.0 | 0.6.0.x |
| prosody / prosody | 0.6 | 0.6.x |
| prosody / prosody | 0.4.2 | 0.4.2.x |
| prosody / prosody | 0.8 | 0.8.x |
| prosody / prosody | 0.5.0 | 0.5.0.x |
| prosody / prosody | 0.6.1 | 0.6.1.x |
| prosody / prosody | 0.5.2 | 0.5.2.x |
| prosody / prosody | 0.7 | 0.7.x |
| prosody / prosody | 0.4.0 | 0.4.0.x |
| prosody / prosody | 0.7.0 | 0.7.0.x |
| prosody / prosody | 0.3.0 | 0.3.0.x |
| prosody / prosody | 0.2.0 | 0.2.0.x |
| prosody / prosody | 0.4.1 | 0.4.1.x |
| prosody / prosody | 0.1.0 | 0.1.0.x |
| prosody / prosody | - | 0.8.0.x |
| prosody / prosody | 0.5.1 | 0.5.1.x |
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d
- http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44852
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884
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