XML Entity Expansion (Billion Laughs Attack) on Pippo 1.12.0 results in Denial of Service.Entities are created recursively and large amounts of heap memory is taken. Eventually, the JVM process will run out of memory. Otherwise, if the OS does not bound the memory on that process, memory will continue to be exhausted and will affect other processes on the system.
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EUVD-2019-0543 | XML Entity Expansion (Billion Laughs Attack) on Pippo 1.12.0 results in Denial of Service.Entities are created recursively and large amounts of heap memory is taken. Eventually, the JVM process will run out of memory. Otherwise, if the OS does not bound the memory on that process, memory will continue to be exhausted and will affect other processes on the system. |
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GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj | XML Entity Expansion in Pippo |
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https://hackerone.com/reports/506791 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: hackerone
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-04T19:54:53.549Z
Reserved: 2019-01-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2019-5442

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Status : Modified
Published: 2019-06-12T16:29:00.300
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:44:56.550
Link: CVE-2019-5442

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