CVE-2011-2205

Description

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.

How to fix CVE-2011-2205

To remediate CVE-2011-2205, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• Debian/prosody—upgrade to 0.7.0-1 or later

Is CVE-2011-2205 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 1.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (1)

• from 0, < 0.7.0-1

References (1)

• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2205