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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.69997
Category:FreeBSD Local Security Checks
Title:FreeBSD Ports: ejabberd
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to the system; as announced in the referenced advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to the system
as announced in the referenced advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
The following package is affected: ejabberd

CVE-2011-1753
expat_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.

Solution:
Update your system with the appropriate patches or
software upgrades.

CVSS Score:
5.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1753
44765
http://secunia.com/advisories/44765
44807
http://secunia.com/advisories/44807
45120
http://secunia.com/advisories/45120
48072
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48072
DSA-2248
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2248
FEDORA-2011-8415
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062099.html
FEDORA-2011-8437
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062145.html
ejabberd-xml-dos(67769)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67769
http://www.ejabberd.im/ejabberd-2.1.7
http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/release_notes/release_note_ejabberd_2.1.7/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700454
https://git.process-one.net/ejabberd/mainline/commit/bd1df027c622e1f96f9eeaac612a6a956c1ff0b6
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