CVE-2003-1564 Information

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.\

Reference

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-August/msg00034.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31868 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/65843/time_to_upgrade_libxml2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0886.html http://www.stylusstudio.com/xmldev/200302/post20020.html http://xmlsoft.org/news.html