CVE-2003-1564 (GCVE-0-2003-1564)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-02 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:35
VLAI?
Summary
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."
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/31868 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://xmlsoft.org/news.html x_refsource_MISC
http://www.stylusstudio.com/xmldev/200302/post200… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6584… x_refsource_MISC
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-August/ms… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-08… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public ?
2003-01-06 00:00
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