CVE
- Id
- 8388
- CVE No.
- CVE-2003-1564
- Status
- Candidate
- 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."
- Phase
- Assigned (20080902)
- Votes
- None (candidate not yet proposed)
- Comments