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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Information
Published : 2003-12-31 05:00
Updated : 2008-10-24 04:30
NVD link : CVE-2003-1564
Mitre link : CVE-2003-1564
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Products Affected
xmlsoft
- libxml2
CWE
CWE-189
Numeric Errors
