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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-08T02:35:17.000Z
Reserved: 2008-09-02T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2003-1564
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Status : Modified
Published: 2003-12-31T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627
Link: CVE-2003-1564
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