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Wouter Coekaerts discovered that the jabber server component of citadel, a complete and feature-rich groupware server, is vulnerable to the so-called "billion laughs" attack because it does not prevent entity expansion on received data. This allows an attacker to perform denial of service . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2250-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde March 31, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : citadel Vulnerability : denial of service Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2011-1756 Wouter Coekaerts discovered that the jabber server component of citadel, a complete and feature-rich groupware server, is vulnerable to the so-called "billion laughs" attack because it does not prevent entity expansion on received data. This allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks against the service by sending specially crafted XML data to it. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 7.37-8+lenny1. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 7.83-2squeeze2. For the testing (wheezy) and unstable(sid) distributions, this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your citadel packages. Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: http://www.debian.org/security/ Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Security vulnerability identified in Citadel's XMPP server module. Users advised to implement updates promptly. More information enclosed.. Citadel Security,Denial of Service,Debian Advisory. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 31, 2011
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