CVE-2014-3660 in Mac OS Xinfo

Summary

parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.2 does not properly prevent entity expansion even when entity substitution has been disabled, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a variant of the "billion laughs" attack.

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05/14/2014

Disclosure

11/03/2014

Status

Confirmed

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