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TITLE:
Cisco Jabber Extensible Communications Platform Denial of Service
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46185

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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=46185

RELEASE DATE:
2011-09-30

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Jabber Extensible
Communications Platform (Jabber XCP), which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling certain XML
requests, which can be exploited to e.g. cause a high CPU and memory
resource consumption and crashes via heavily nested XML entities.

This may be related to:
SA44787

SOLUTION:
Update to versions 5.4.0.27581 or 5.8.1.27561.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20110928-xcpcupsxml.shtml

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