CVE-2014-3574: Entity expansion (billion laughs) flaw

September 4, 2014 (updated August 28, 2017)

This package allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via a crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2014-3574
issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54764

Code Behaviors & Features

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