From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Sep 23 2004 - 09:05:32 CDT

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TITLE:
jabberd / jadc2s XML Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12636

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12636/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
jadc2s 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/3940/
jabberd 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/2729/

DESCRIPTION:
Jose Antonio Calvo has reported a vulnerability in jabberd and
jadc2s, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the parsing of XML.
This can be exploited to cause the program to crash by sending a
specially crafted string on any socket where XML data is expected.

The vulnerability affects versions through jabberd 1.4.3 and jadc2s
0.90.

SOLUTION:
Fixes are available in the CVS repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jose Antonio Calvo

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/jabberd/2004-September/002004.html
http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/jadmin/2004-September/018046.html

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