CVE-2011-1755

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2011-05-31
Bugzilla:
700390: CVE-2011-1755 jabberd: DoS via the XML "billion laughs attack"

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

jabberd2 before 2.2.14 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.

Find out more about CVE-2011-1755 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Vulnerable. This issue has been addressed in Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.4.1 via RHSA-2011:0882 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0882.html and in Red Hat Network Proxy Server v5.4.1 via RHSA-2011:0881 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0881.html. This issue is not planned
to be fixed in Red Hat Network Satellite Server versions 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 5.2.1, 5.3.0 and not planned to be fixed in Red Hat Network Proxy Server versions 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 5.2.1, and 5.3.0.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Satellite 5.4 (RHEL v.5) (jabberd) RHSA-2011:0882 2011-06-16
Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5.4 (RHEL v.5) (jabberd) RHSA-2011:0881 2011-06-16

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