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CVE-2011-1756
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
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..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 5/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 2.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- None
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:citadel:citadel:7.84:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:citadel:citadel:7.81:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:citadel:citadel:7.80:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:citadel:citadel:7.82:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:citadel:citadel:7.50:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:citadel:citadel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:citadel:citadel:7.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:citadel:citadel:7.60:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/citadel/citadel_7.37-8+lenny1/changelo
- http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/c/citadel/citadel_7.83-2squ
- http://code.citadel.org/cgit.cgi/git.citadel.org/commit/?id=27c991cc2059f5530d3d4e9689dc
- http://code.citadel.org/cgit.cgi/git.citadel.org/commit/?id=95040add546a705cc2d1d8f16293
- http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/citadel/citadel_7.83-2squeeze2/changel
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44788
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2250
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48071