CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-1864

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2014-05-23 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-05-23
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

The Portable Tool Library (aka PTLib) before 2.10.10, as used in Ekiga before 4.0.1, 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 PXML document containing a large number of nested entity references, aka a "billion laughs attack."

Affected configurations

• opalvoip portable tool library 2.10.1 • opalvoip portable tool library 2.10.2 • opalvoip portable tool library 2.10.7 • opalvoip portable tool library 2.10.9 • ekiga ekiga (<= 4.0.0) • suse suse linux enterprise software development kit 11.0 • suse suse linux enterprise desktop 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References