Brad Fitzpatrick DJabberd up to 0.84 resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Brad Fitzpatrick DJabberd 0.80/0.81/0.82/0.83/0.84. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2011-1757. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Brad Fitzpatrick DJabberd 0.80/0.81/0.82/0.83/0.84 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

DJabberd 0.84 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.

The weakness was shared 06/20/2011 (Website). The advisory is shared at groups.google.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2011-1757 since 04/19/2011. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 63984 (RHEL 5 : jabberd (RHSA-2011:0881)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (63984) and SecurityFocus (BID 48250†). The entries VDB-57750 and VDB-57747 are related to this item. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 63984
Nessus Name: RHEL 5 : jabberd (RHSA-2011:0881)
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04/19/2011 🔍
06/16/2011 +58 days 🔍
06/20/2011 +4 days 🔍
06/20/2011 +0 days 🔍
01/24/2013 +584 days 🔍
03/23/2015 +788 days 🔍
11/13/2021 +2427 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: RHSA-2011:0881
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2011-1757 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2011-1757
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-57749
SecurityFocus: 48250

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 11/13/2021 11:04
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (53), 02/09/2019 11:13 (3), 11/13/2021 11:04 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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