SB2011060204 - Fedora EPEL 5 update for jabberd
Published: June 2, 2011 Updated: April 24, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2011060204
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1755)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.