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Red Hat JBoss: CVE-2011-1483: A remote attacker could cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption)

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Red Hat JBoss: CVE-2011-1483: A remote attacker could cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/29/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/01/2017
Modified
08/01/2017

Description

wsf/common/DOMUtils.java in JBossWS Native in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2.0.CP09, 4.3, and 5.1.1; JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3.CP06 and 5.1.1; JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.2.CP05, 4.3.CP05, and 5.1.0; JBoss Communications Platform 1.2.11 and 5.1.1; JBoss Enterprise BRMS Platform 5.1.0; and JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.1 does not properly handle recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted request containing an XML document with a DOCTYPE declaration and a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Solution(s)

  • jboss_enterprise_application_platform-cve-2011-1483-1
  • jboss_enterprise_application_platform-cve-2011-1483-2
  • jboss_enterprise_application_platform-cve-2011-1483-3

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