PT-2014-2508

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Portable Tool Library PTLib versions prior to 2.10.10 Ekiga versions prior to 4.0.1 Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, consuming memory and CPU, via a crafted PXML document containing a large number...

qt4-xml -- XML Entity Expansion Denial of Service

Richard J. Moore reports: QXmlSimpleReader in Qt versions prior to 5.2 supports expansion of internal entities in XML documents without placing restrictions to ensure the document does not cause excessive memory usage. If an application using this API processes untrusted data then the application...

FICOBank Information Disclosure / Cross Site Scripting

FICOBank Directory Listing Information Disclosure / Cross Site Scripting / Jquery Old Version Vulnerable Report-Timeline: ================ 23-08-2013 Advisory Response:"Our country does not have the same laws as their own and we do not consider to be security flaws the data you send us. Thank you...

texproc/expat2 -- billion laugh attack

Kurt Seifried reports: So here are the CVE's for the two big ones, libxml2 and expat. Both are affected by the expansion of internal entities which can be used to consume resources and external entities which can cause a denial of service against other services, be used to port scan, etc.. A...

DefenseCode Security Advisory: Cisco Linksys Remote Preauth 0day Root Exploit Follow-Up

A few weeks ago, we have announced remote preauth root access exploit for Cisco Linksys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv-MbL7KFKE. Vulnerability details were disclosed here: http://www.defensecode.com/public/DefenseCodeBroadcomSecurityAdvisory.pdf During further research, we have discovered that...

neon: billion laughs DoS attack

neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent 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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : neon on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-2473 neon, gnome-vfs2 embedded neon: billion laughs DoS attack CVE-2009-2474 neon: Improper verification of x509v3 certificate with NULL zero byte in certain fields It was discovered that neon is affected by the previously published 'null prefix attack', caused by incorrect handling of...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2249-1)

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...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2248-1)

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...

jabberd: DoS via the XML "billion laughs attack"

jabberd2 before 2.2.14 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...

Debian DSA-2248-1 : ejabberd - denial of service

Wouter Coekaerts discovered that ejabberd, a distributed XMPP/Jabber server written in Erlang, 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...

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...

DSA-2249-1 jabberd14 - denial of service

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Now Google Is Going To Have To Pay $8 Billion To Buy Twitter (GOOG)

There used to be a time when people swooned at the idea of Google having to spend $1 billion to acquire Twitter. Now it's going to have to be a lot more than that. Twitter just raised $200 million at a $3.7 billion valuation. Assuming its newest backer, Kleiner Perkins, wants to more-than-double...

apr-util billion laughs attack

The expat XML parser in the aprxml interface in xml/aprxml.c in Apache APR-util before 1.3.7, as used in the moddav and moddavsvn modules in the Apache HTTP Server, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nest...

Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-8794 (neon)

The remote host is missing an update to neon announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-8794. Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the...

Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-8815 (neon)

The remote host is missing an update to neon announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-8815. Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the...

Fedora 11 : neon-0.28.6-1.fc11 (2009-8815)

This update includes the latest release of neon, version 0.28.6. This fixes two security issues: the 'billion laughs' attack against expat could allow a Denial of Service attack by a malicious server. CVE-2009-2473 an embedded NUL byte in a certificate subject name could allow an undetected MITM...

apr-util billion laughs attack

The expat XML parser in the aprxml interface in xml/aprxml.c in Apache APR-util before 1.3.7, as used in the moddav and moddavsvn modules in the Apache HTTP Server, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nest...

Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-6014 (apr-util)

The remote host is missing an update to apr-util announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-6014. Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by t...