PT-2011-3681 · Prosody · Prosody

Wouter Coekaerts · Published 2011-06-22 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2011-2205

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Prosody versions prior to 0.8.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service due to memory and CPU consumption. This is achieved through a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.8.1, update to version 0.8.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-2205

Affected Products

Prosody

References · 13

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2205 · Vendor Advisory
• http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/44852 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-2205 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2205 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2205 · Vendor Advisory
• http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released · Patch
• http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1 · Patch
• http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d · Patch
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/48125 · Note