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ghsa-6wfm-7hqx-39wg

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-04-29 01:28

Modified

2024-02-02 15:30

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

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-2003-1564

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2008-09-02 14:00

Modified

2024-08-08 02:35

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	http://secunia.com/advisories/31868	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
	http://xmlsoft.org/news.html	x_refsource_MISC
	http://www.stylusstudio.com/xmldev/200302/post20020.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/65843/time_to_upgrade_libxml2	x_refsource_MISC
	http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-August/msg00034.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0886.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

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n/a

Version: n/a

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Nomenclature

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Not exploited: This vulnerability was not exploited or seen by the user reporting the sighting.
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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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