CVE-2013-1864
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 23, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 19, 2013
Description
The Portable Tool Library (aka PTLib) before 2.10.10, as used in Ekiga before 4.0.1, 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 PXML document containing a large number of nested entity references, aka a "billion laughs attack."
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- 52659third-party-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2014:0237vendor-advisory
- ptlib-xml-dos(82885)vdb-entry
- http://www.ekiga.org/news/2013-02-21/ekiga-4.0.1-stable-available
- FEDORA-2013-2998vendor-advisory
- 91439vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20130315 Re: CVE request: billion laughs flaw in ptlibmailing-list
- http://sourceforge.net/p/opalvoip/code/28856
- 58520vdb-entry
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