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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2008-09-02T14:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-08T02:35:17.000Z
Reserved: 2008-09-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2003-1564
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NVD
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2003-12-31T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2024-02-02T14:10:59.090
Link: CVE-2003-1564
Redhat