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CVE-2011-2188
Published: Jun 21, 2011
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
LuaExpat before 1.2.0 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 XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
48123
vdb-entry
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[oss-security] 20110606 CVE Request -- LuaExpat -- Prone to XML "billion laughs attack"
mailing-list
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711027
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[oss-security] 20110606 Re: CVE Request -- LuaExpat -- Prone to XML "billion laughs attack"
mailing-list
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http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629225
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luaexpat-xml-dos(67862)
vdb-entry
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44866
third-party-advisory
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