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Posted on 09 June 2011
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TITLE:
LuaExpat XML Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44866
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2011-06-08
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in LuaExpat, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) in an
application using the library.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the parsing of
certain XML input and can be exploited to cause high CPU and memory
consumption e.g. via heavily nested XML entities.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.2.0.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.0.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a Debian bug report.
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