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CVE-2013-1864 (GCVE-0-2013-1864)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-05-23 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 15:20
VLAI?
Summary
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."
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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