CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2188
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-06-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
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.
Affected configurations
• matthewwild luaexpat (<= 1.1.0)
• matthewwild luaexpat 1.0
• matthewwild luaexpat 1.0.1
• matthewwild luaexpat 1.0.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629225 bugs.debian.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44866 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/19 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48123 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711027 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67862 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629225 bugs.debian.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44866 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/19 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48123 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711027 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67862 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com