CVE-2003-1564
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 2, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 8, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 2, 2008
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."
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 31868third-party-advisory
- http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
- [xml-dev] 20030202 Re: Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Servicesmailing-list
- http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/65843/time_to_upgrade_libxml2
- [xml] 20080820 Security fix for libxml2mailing-list
- RHSA-2008:0886vendor-advisory
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