CVE-2013-1864 | BDVDB-2026-61760 Detail
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."
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52659
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2014/suse-su-20140237-1.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82885
- http://www.ekiga.org/news/2013-02-21/ekiga-4.0.1-stable-available
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/099553.html
- http://osvdb.org/91439
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/674
- http://sourceforge.net/p/opalvoip/code/28856
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58520
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.