CVE-2003-1564

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

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."

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."

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

XMLSoft Libxml2

First reported 21 years ago

2003-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-10-24 04:30:00

Affected Software

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.7.0

1.7.0

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.7.1

1.7.1

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.7.2

1.7.2

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.7.3

1.7.3

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.7.4

1.7.4

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.8.0

1.8.0

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.8.1

1.8.1

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.8.2

1.8.2

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.8.3

1.8.3

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.8.4

1.8.4

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.8.5

1.8.5

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.8.6

1.8.6

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.8.7

1.8.7

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.8.9

1.8.9

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.8.10

1.8.10

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.8.13

1.8.13

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.8.14

1.8.14

XMLSoft Libxml2 1.8.16

1.8.16

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.0.0

2.0.0

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.1.0

2.1.0

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.1.1

2.1.1

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.2.0

2.2.0

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.2.0 beta

2.2.0

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.2.1

2.2.1

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.2.2

2.2.2

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.2.3

2.2.3

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.2.4

2.2.4

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.2.5

2.2.5

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.2.6

2.2.6

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.2.7

2.2.7

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.2.8

2.2.8

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.2.9

2.2.9

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.2.10

2.2.10

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.2.11

2.2.11

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.3.0

2.3.0

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.3.1

2.3.1

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.3.2

2.3.2

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.3.3

2.3.3

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.3.4

2.3.4

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.3.5

2.3.5

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.3.6

2.3.6

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.3.7

2.3.7

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.3.8

2.3.8

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.3.9

2.3.9

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.3.10

2.3.10

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.3.11

2.3.11

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.3.12

2.3.12

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.3.13

2.3.13

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.3.14

2.3.14

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.1

2.4.1

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.2

2.4.2

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.3

2.4.3

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.4

2.4.4

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.5

2.4.5

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.6

2.4.6

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.7

2.4.7

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.8

2.4.8

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.9

2.4.9

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.10

2.4.10

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.11

2.4.11

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.12

2.4.12

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.13

2.4.13

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.14

2.4.14

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.15

2.4.15

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.16

2.4.16

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.17

2.4.17

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.18

2.4.18

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.19

2.4.19

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.20

2.4.20

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.21

2.4.21

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.22

2.4.22

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.23

2.4.23

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.24

2.4.24

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.25

2.4.25

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.26

2.4.26

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.27

2.4.27

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.28

2.4.28

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.29

2.4.29

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.4.30

2.4.30

XMLSoft Libxml2 2.5.0

2.5.0

References

[xml] 20080820 Security fix for libxml2

31868

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/65843/time_to_upgrade_libxml2

RHSA-2008:0886

[xml-dev] 20030202 Re: Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services

http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

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