CVE-2004-1378

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-09-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The expat XML parser code, as used in the open source Jabber (jabberd) 1.4.3 and earlier, jadc2s 0.9.0 and earlier, and possibly other packages, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet to a socket that accepts XML connections.

Affected products

Jabberstudio Jabberd: 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.2a, 1.4.3
Jabberstudio Jadc2S: 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9

References

http://devel.amessage.info/jabberd14/
http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/jabberd/2004-September/002004.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109583829122679&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/12636
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011383
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011384
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-31.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/10257
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11231
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/2e25d38b-54d1-11d9-b612-000c6e8f12ef.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17466
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17467

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