DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2188

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2188
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2188.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2188
Upstream
Published
2011-06-21T02:52:43.670Z
Modified
2025-11-19T01:01:54.954353Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / lua-expat

Package

Name
lua-expat
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lua-expat?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.2.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:12 / lua-expat

Package

Name
lua-expat
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lua-expat?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.2.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:13 / lua-expat

Package

Name
lua-expat
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lua-expat?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.2.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:14 / lua-expat

Package

Name
lua-expat
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lua-expat?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.2.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}