Vulnerability CVE-2011-2188
Published: 2011-06-20   Modified: 2012-02-13

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Matthewwild -> Luaexpat 

 References:
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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711027
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67862
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