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Gentoo: 200409-31 Normal: jabberd 1.x Denial of Service Attack

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Calendar Grey September 23, 2004
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Gentoo GLSA 202309-45: jabberd 1.x is susceptible to a Denial of Service vulnerability due to XML parsing flaws. Update is advised.
The jabberd server was found to be vulnerable to a remote Denial of Service attack.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200409-31 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: jabberd 1.x: Denial of Service vulnerability Date: September 23, 2004 Bugs: #64741 ID: 200409-31

Synopsis ======= The jabberd server was found to be vulnerable to a remote Denial of Service attack.
Background ========= Jabber is a set of streaming XML protocols enabling message, presence, and other structured information exchange between two hosts. jabberd is the original implementation of the Jabber protocol server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-im/jabberd <= 1.4.3-r3 >= 1.4.3-r4
========== Jose Antonio Calvo found a defect in routi...

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