CVE-2013-0338: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

April 25, 2013 (updated October 30, 2018)

libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka “internal entity expansion” with linear complexity.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0338

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