CVE-2011-2205 (GCVE-0-2011-2205)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-06-22 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 22:53
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Prosody before 0.8.1 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.
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