Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-1756 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Citadel
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
modules/xmpp/serv_xmpp.c in Citadel 7.86 and earlier 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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 8 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2011-0882.NASL description An updated jabberd package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. This package provides jabberd 2, an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) server used for XML based communication. It was found that the jabberd daemon did not properly detect recursion during entity expansion. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file containing a large number of nested entity references, which once processed by the jabberd daemon, could lead to a denial of service (excessive memory and CPU consumption). (CVE-2011-1755) Red Hat would like to thank Nico Golde of the Debian Security Team for reporting this issue. The Debian Security Team acknowledges Wouter Coekaerts as the original reporter. Users of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4.1 are advised to upgrade to this updated jabberd package, which resolves this issue. For this update to take effect, Red Hat Network Satellite must be restarted. Refer to the Solution section for details. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 63985 published 2013-01-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63985 title RHEL 5 : jabberd (RHSA-2011:0882) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2011:0882. The text # itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc. # if (NASL_LEVEL < 3000) exit(0); include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(63985); script_version("1.10"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:16"); script_cve_id("CVE-2003-1564", "CVE-2011-1753", "CVE-2011-1754", "CVE-2011-1755", "CVE-2011-1756", "CVE-2011-1757", "CVE-2011-2188"); script_bugtraq_id(48250); script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2011:0882"); script_name(english:"RHEL 5 : jabberd (RHSA-2011:0882)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "An updated jabberd package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. This package provides jabberd 2, an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) server used for XML based communication. It was found that the jabberd daemon did not properly detect recursion during entity expansion. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file containing a large number of nested entity references, which once processed by the jabberd daemon, could lead to a denial of service (excessive memory and CPU consumption). (CVE-2011-1755) Red Hat would like to thank Nico Golde of the Debian Security Team for reporting this issue. The Debian Security Team acknowledges Wouter Coekaerts as the original reporter. Users of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4.1 are advised to upgrade to this updated jabberd package, which resolves this issue. For this update to take effect, Red Hat Network Satellite must be restarted. Refer to the Solution section for details." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2011-1755.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0882.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected jabberd package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_cwe_id(189); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jabberd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/06/16"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/01/24"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Red Hat" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "s390" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Red Hat", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"i386", reference:"jabberd-2.2.8-12.el5sat")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"s390x", reference:"jabberd-2.2.8-12.el5sat")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"jabberd-2.2.8-12.el5sat")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-2250.NASL description Wouter Coekaerts discovered that the Jabber server component of Citadel, a complete and feature-rich groupware server, is vulnerable to the so-called last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2011-06-10 plugin id 55038 published 2011-06-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/55038 title Debian DSA-2250-1 : citadel - denial of service code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-2250. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(55038); script_version("1.10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2011-1756"); script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2250"); script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2250-1 : citadel - denial of service"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Wouter Coekaerts discovered that the Jabber server component of Citadel, a complete and feature-rich groupware server, is vulnerable to the so-called'billion laughs' attack because it does not prevent entity expansion on received data. This allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks against the service by sending specially crafted XML data to it." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/citadel" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2250" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade the citadel packages. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 7.37-8+lenny1. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 7.83-2squeeze2." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:citadel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/03/31"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/06/10"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"citadel", reference:"7.37-8+lenny1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"citadel-client", reference:"7.83-2squeeze2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"citadel-dbg", reference:"7.83-2squeeze2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"citadel-doc", reference:"7.83-2squeeze2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"citadel-mta", reference:"7.83-2squeeze2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"citadel-server", reference:"7.83-2squeeze2")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2011-0881.NASL description An updated jabberd package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Network Proxy 5.4.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. This package provides jabberd 2, an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) server used for XML based communication. It was found that the jabberd daemon did not properly detect recursion during entity expansion. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file containing a large number of nested entity references, which once processed by the jabberd daemon, could lead to a denial of service (excessive memory and CPU consumption). (CVE-2011-1755) Red Hat would like to thank Nico Golde of the Debian Security Team for reporting this issue. The Debian Security Team acknowledges Wouter Coekaerts as the original reporter. Users of Red Hat Network Proxy 5.4.1 are advised to upgrade to this updated jabberd package, which resolves this issue. For this update to take effect, Red Hat Network Proxy must be restarted. Refer to the Solution section for details. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 63984 published 2013-01-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63984 title RHEL 5 : jabberd (RHSA-2011:0881) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2011:0881. The text # itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc. # if (NASL_LEVEL < 3000) exit(0); include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(63984); script_version("1.10"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:16"); script_cve_id("CVE-2003-1564", "CVE-2011-1753", "CVE-2011-1754", "CVE-2011-1755", "CVE-2011-1756", "CVE-2011-1757", "CVE-2011-2188"); script_bugtraq_id(48250); script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2011:0881"); script_name(english:"RHEL 5 : jabberd (RHSA-2011:0881)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "An updated jabberd package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Network Proxy 5.4.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. This package provides jabberd 2, an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) server used for XML based communication. It was found that the jabberd daemon did not properly detect recursion during entity expansion. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file containing a large number of nested entity references, which once processed by the jabberd daemon, could lead to a denial of service (excessive memory and CPU consumption). (CVE-2011-1755) Red Hat would like to thank Nico Golde of the Debian Security Team for reporting this issue. The Debian Security Team acknowledges Wouter Coekaerts as the original reporter. Users of Red Hat Network Proxy 5.4.1 are advised to upgrade to this updated jabberd package, which resolves this issue. For this update to take effect, Red Hat Network Proxy must be restarted. Refer to the Solution section for details." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2011-1755.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0881.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected jabberd package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_cwe_id(189); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jabberd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/06/16"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/01/24"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Red Hat" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "s390" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Red Hat", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"i386", reference:"jabberd-2.2.8-12.el5sat")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"s390x", reference:"jabberd-2.2.8-12.el5sat")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"jabberd-2.2.8-12.el5sat")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
References
- http://code.citadel.org/cgit.cgi/git.citadel.org/commit/?id=27c991cc2059f5530d3d4e9689dc976b745f5b0c
- http://code.citadel.org/cgit.cgi/git.citadel.org/commit/?id=95040add546a705cc2d1d8f16293141f9f9845a6
- http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/citadel/citadel_7.37-8+lenny1/changelog
- http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/citadel/citadel_7.83-2squeeze2/changelog
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44788
- http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/c/citadel/citadel_7.83-2squeeze2.diff.gz
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2250
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48071