libxml2, possibly before 2.5.0, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, aka the "billion laughs attack."
References
Link | Resource |
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http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-August/msg00034.html | Mailing List Patch |
http://secunia.com/advisories/31868 | Broken Link |
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/65843/time_to_upgrade_libxml2 | Issue Tracking |
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0886.html | Broken Link |
http://www.stylusstudio.com/xmldev/200302/post20020.html | Broken Link |
http://xmlsoft.org/news.html | Release Notes |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2008-09-02T14:00:00
Updated: 2008-09-17T09:00:00
Reserved: 2008-09-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2003-1564
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2003-12-31T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2024-02-02T14:10:59.090
Link: CVE-2003-1564
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CWE