CVE-2011-2188
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 21, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- May 31, 2011
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.
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
- 48123vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20110606 CVE Request -- LuaExpat -- Prone to XML "billion laughs attack"mailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711027
- [oss-security] 20110606 Re: CVE Request -- LuaExpat -- Prone to XML "billion laughs attack"mailing-list
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629225
- luaexpat-xml-dos(67862)vdb-entry
- 44866third-party-advisory
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