CVE-2011-2188 Information

Description

LuaExpat before 1.2.0 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629225 http://secunia.com/advisories/44866 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/19 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48123 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711027 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67862