CVE - CVE-2003-1564

CVE-ID
CVE-2003-1564	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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."
References
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MISC:http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/65843/time_to_upgrade_libxml2 MISC:http://xmlsoft.org/news.html MLIST:[xml-dev] 20030202 Re: Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services URL:http://www.stylusstudio.com/xmldev/200302/post20020.html MLIST:[xml] 20080820 Security fix for libxml2 URL:http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-August/msg00034.html REDHAT:RHSA-2008:0886 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0886.html SECUNIA:31868 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/31868
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20080902	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20080902)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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