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)  
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