Security Advisory

CVE-2003-1564

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-09-02 14:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-08 02:35:17

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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."

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