CVE-2011-2188
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2188
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2011-2188.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2011-2188
- Downstream
- Published
- 2011-06-21T02:52:43Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:26Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- http://secunia.com/advisories/44866
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711027
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629225
- 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://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67862