Description
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 products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/ ↗
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884 ↗
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44852 ↗
- http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125 ↗