CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-2188

Published: Jun 21, 2011 | Modified: Aug 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Luaexpat Matthewwild * 1.1.0 (including)
Luaexpat Matthewwild 1.0 (including) 1.0 (including)
Luaexpat Matthewwild 1.0.1 (including) 1.0.1 (including)
Luaexpat Matthewwild 1.0.2 (including) 1.0.2 (including)
Lua-expat Ubuntu hardy *
Lua-expat Ubuntu lucid *
Lua-expat Ubuntu maverick *
Lua-expat Ubuntu natty *
Lua-expat Ubuntu upstream *

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