[RHSA-2011:0882-01] Low: Red Hat Network Satellite server jabberd security update

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                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Low: Red Hat Network Satellite server jabberd security update
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2011:0882-01
Product:           Red Hat Network Satellite Server
Advisory URL:      https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0882.html
Issue date:        2011-06-16
CVE Names:         CVE-2011-1755 
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1. Summary:

An updated jabberd package that fixes one security issue is now available
for Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low
security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in
the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Network Satellite Server 5.4 (RHEL v.5) - i386, s390x, x86_64

3. Description:

This package provides jabberd 2, an Extensible Messaging and Presence
Protocol (XMPP) server used for XML based communication.

It was found that the jabberd daemon did not properly detect recursion
during entity expansion. A remote attacker could provide a
specially-crafted XML file containing a large number of nested entity
references, which once processed by the jabberd daemon, could lead to a
denial of service (excessive memory and CPU consumption). (CVE-2011-1755)

Red Hat would like to thank Nico Golde of the Debian Security Team for
reporting this issue. The Debian Security Team acknowledges Wouter
Coekaerts as the original reporter.

Users of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4.1 are advised to upgrade to this
updated jabberd package, which resolves this issue. For this update to take
effect, Red Hat Network Satellite must be restarted. Refer to the Solution
section for details.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Run the following command to restart the Red Hat Network Satellite
server:

# rhn-satellite restart

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

700390 - CVE-2011-1755 jabberd: DoS via the XML "billion laughs attack"

6. Package List:

Red Hat Network Satellite Server 5.4 (RHEL v.5):

Source:
jabberd-2.2.8-12.el5sat.src.rpm

i386:
jabberd-2.2.8-12.el5sat.i386.rpm
jabberd-debuginfo-2.2.8-12.el5sat.i386.rpm

s390x:
jabberd-2.2.8-12.el5sat.s390x.rpm
jabberd-debuginfo-2.2.8-12.el5sat.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
jabberd-2.2.8-12.el5sat.x86_64.rpm
jabberd-debuginfo-2.2.8-12.el5sat.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security.  Our key and 
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

7. References:

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2011-1755.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert at redhat.com>.  More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2011 Red Hat, Inc.
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