CVE-2011-1753

NameCVE-2011-1753
Descriptionexpat_erl.c in ejabberd before 2.1.7 and 3.x before 3.0.0-alpha-3, and exmpp before 0.9.7, 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-2248-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ejabberd (PTS)buster18.12.1-2fixed
bullseye21.01-2fixed
bookworm23.01-1fixed
sid, trixie23.10-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ejabberdsourcelenny2.0.1-6+lenny3DSA-2248-1
ejabberdsourcesqueeze2.1.5-3+squeeze1DSA-2248-1
ejabberdsource(unstable)2.1.6-2.1medium

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