Citadel Malware Crew May Be Taking Its Wares Off the Market

It turns out that malware authors–at least some of them–may have an interest in economics. Perhaps worried about market saturation or commoditization, the distributors of the Citadel malware, which has been used to deliver ransomware in the past, are apparently about to take their creation off th...

FBI Warns Users of New 'Reveton' Scareware Scam

The FBI is warning consumers about a new scam that’s using a piece of malware called Citadel to redirect users to a scam site that installs scareware on their machines and demands a $100 payment to unlock them. The twist in this scam is that it uses the threat of prosecution by the Department of...

Zeus 2.x variant includes ransomware features

Zeus 2.x variant includes ransomware features Cybercriminals are getting more sophisticated, as reports are coming in that hacker coders have successfully merged a ransom trojan with a Zeus malware successor called Citadel. A notorious malware platform targeting financial information has added a...

Malware Poses as US Department of Justice Violation Notice

Posing as the US Department of Justice DoJ, a new variant of the Citadel Malware called Reveton is responsible for a ransomware campaign that attempts to extort $100 from its victims. The infections are occurring after users are lured to a drive-by download site where a dropper installs the Citad...

Citadel Malware Authors Adopt Open-Source Development Model

Attackers and malware authors are well-known for their proclivity for taking whatever tactics and techniques work for others and making them their own. That adaptive ability has now extended to the idea of open-source projects, with one malware gang having set up its own community for improving a...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2250-1 (citadel)

The remote host is missing an update to citadel announced via advisory DSA 2250-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb22501.nasl 6613 2017-07-07 12:08:40Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2250-1 citadel Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2011 E-Soft Inc...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2250-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2011-1756

modules/xmpp/servxmpp.c in Citadel 7.86 and earlier 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 t...

Design/Logic Flaw

modules/xmpp/servxmpp.c in Citadel 7.86 and earlier 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 t...

CVE-2011-1756

modules/xmpp/servxmpp.c in Citadel 7.86 and earlier 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 t...

UBUNTU-CVE-2011-1756

modules/xmpp/servxmpp.c in Citadel 7.86 and earlier 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 t...

CVE-2011-1756

modules/xmpp/servxmpp.c in Citadel 7.86 and earlier 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 t...

CVE-2011-1756

Technical details for CVE-2011-1756 are not publicly available in the provided documents. Monitor for updates.

CVE-2011-1756

Removed by vendor...

PT-2011-3351

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Citadel versions 7.86 and earlier Description The issue is related to improper detection of recursion during entity expansion in XML documents. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by consuming memory and CPU via a crafted...

CVE-2011-1756: Undefined Security Weakness

modules/xmpp/servxmpp.c in Citadel 7.86 and earlier 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 t...

Debian DSA-2250-1 : citadel - denial of service

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...

Citadel Jabber server / Jabberd / ejabberd DoS

DoS on XML data parsing...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2250-1] citadel security update

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[SECURITY] [DSA 2250-1] citadel security update

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