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CVE Reference: CVE-2003-1564 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2003-1564 |
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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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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: SAID Secunia Advisory: SA31868 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0886.html MLIST http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-August/msg00034.html http://http://www.stylusstudio.com/xmldev/200302/post20020.html MISC http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/65843/time_to_upgrade_libxml2 http://xmlsoft.org/news.html |
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