Denial of Service Vulnerability in Ignite Realtime Openfire XML Lightweight Parser

CVE-2014-2741 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

nio/XMLLightweightParser.java in Ignite Realtime Openfire before 3.9.2 does not properly restrict the processing of compressed XML elements, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack.

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