Secunia Security Advisory - Wouter Coekaerts has reported a vulnerability in DJabberd, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
DJabberd Nested XML Entities Denial of Service Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44936
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DESCRIPTION:
Wouter Coekaerts has reported a vulnerability in DJabberd, which can
be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the parsing of
certain XML input, which can be exploited to e.g. cause a high CPU
and memory consumption via heavily nested XML entities.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.85.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.85.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Wouter Coekaerts
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
DJabberd:
http://groups.google.com/group/djabberd/browse_thread/thread/47974331c37e54c5
Wouter Coekaerts:
http://wouter.coekaerts.be/2011/jabber-dos
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