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CVE-2011-2205

CVE-2011-2205

EPSS 2.1%
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
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References
http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8dhttp://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1http://secunia.com/advisories/44852https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125