cve/2003/CVE-2003-1564.md

CVE-2003-1564

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."

POC

Reference

• http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/65843/time_to_upgrade_libxml2
• http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/65843/time_to_upgrade_libxml2

Github

• https://github.com/ponypot/cve