Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-2205 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Prosody
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- 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
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44852
- http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4