CVE-2022-28652 (GCVE-0-2022-28652)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-04 21:38 – Updated: 2025-03-13 18:21
VLAI?
Summary
~/.config/apport/settings parsing is vulnerable to "billion laughs" attack
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-776 - Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Canonical Ltd. Apport Affected: 0 , < 2.21.0 (semver)
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Credits
Gerrit Venema
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