The Portable Tool Library (aka PTLib) before 2.10.10, as used in Ekiga before 4.0.1, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted PXML document containing a large number of nested entity references, aka a "billion laughs attack."
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2014-05-23T14:00:00

Updated: 2017-08-28T12:57:01

Reserved: 2013-02-19T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2013-1864

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-05-23T14:55:09.630

Modified: 2017-08-29T01:33:11.777


Link: CVE-2013-1864

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