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CVE-2011-2188
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
LuaExpat before 1.2.0 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 XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 5/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 2.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- None
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:matthewwild:luaexpat:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:matthewwild:luaexpat:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:matthewwild:luaexpat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:matthewwild:luaexpat:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/19
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/4
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44866
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711027
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48123
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629225
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67862