Asymmetric denial of service In prosody
Description
Prosody before 0.8.1 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.
Mitigation
Update Impact
Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.
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