CVE-2015-2942

MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU and memory consumption via a large number of nested entity references in an 1 SVG file or 2 XMP metadata in a PDF file, aka a "billion laughs attack," ...

Design/Logic Flaw

MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU and memory consumption via a large number of nested entity references in an 1 SVG file or 2 XMP metadata in a PDF file, aka a "billion laughs attack," ...

PicketLink: XXE via insecure DocumentBuilderFactory usage

It was found that the implementation of the org.picketlink.common.util.DocumentUtil.getDocumentBuilderFactory method provided a DocumentBuilderFactory that would expand entity references. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the...

CVE-2014-6303

The Monitoring Administration pages in PNMsoft Sequence Kinetics before 7.7 do not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a...

PicketLink: XXE via insecure DocumentBuilderFactory usage

It was found that the implementation of the org.picketlink.common.util.DocumentUtil.getDocumentBuilderFactory method provided a DocumentBuilderFactory that would expand entity references. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the...

RESTEasy: XXE via parameter entities

It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-0818 was incomplete: external parameter entities were not disabled when the resteasy.document.expand.entity.references parameter was set to false. A remote attacker able to send XML requests to a RESTEasy endpoint could use this flaw to read files accessible...

PicketLink: XXE via insecure DocumentBuilderFactory usage

It was found that the implementation of the org.picketlink.common.util.DocumentUtil.getDocumentBuilderFactory method provided a DocumentBuilderFactory that would expand entity references. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the...

ruby: REXML incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8080

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.x before 2.0.0 patchlevel 598, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU and memory consumption a crafted XML document containing an empty string in an entity that is used in a large number of...

Privilege escalation

parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.2 does not properly prevent entity expansion even when entity substitution has been disabled, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3660

parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.2 does not properly prevent entity expansion even when entity substitution has been disabled, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a...

CVE-2014-3104

IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1 before 7.1.2.15, 8.0.0 before 8.0.0.12, and 8.0.1 before 8.0.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564...

Code injection

IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1 before 7.1.2.15, 8.0.0 before 8.0.0.12, and 8.0.1 before 8.0.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564...

GLSA-201409-08 : libxml2: Denial of Service

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201409-08 libxml2: Denial of Service A vulnerability in the xmlParserHandlePEReference function of parser.c, when expanding entity references, can be exploited to consume large amounts of memory and cause a crash or hang. Impact :...

CVE-2014-5265

The Incutio XML-RPC IXR Library, as used in WordPress before 3.9.2 and Drupal 6.x before 6.33 and 7.x before 7.31, permits entity declarations without considering recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory and CPU consumption via a crafted...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5265

The Incutio XML-RPC IXR Library, as used in WordPress before 3.9.2 and Drupal 6.x before 6.33 and 7.x before 7.31, permits entity declarations without considering recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory and CPU consumption via a crafted...

RESTEasy: XXE via parameter entities

It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-0818 was incomplete: external parameter entities were not disabled when the resteasy.document.expand.entity.references parameter was set to false. A remote attacker able to send XML requests to a RESTEasy endpoint could use this flaw to read files accessible...

PicketLink: XXE via insecure DocumentBuilderFactory usage

It was found that the implementation of the org.picketlink.common.util.DocumentUtil.getDocumentBuilderFactory method provided a DocumentBuilderFactory that would expand entity references. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the...

openSUSE Security Update : libxml2 (openSUSE-SU-2012:0107-1)

A heap-based buffer overflow during decoding of entity references with overly long names has been fixed. CVE-2011-3919 has been assigned. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update...

CVE-2013-1864

The CVE-2013-1864 issue affects PTLib (Portable Tool Library) before 2.10.10 as used in Ekiga before 4.0.1. The vulnerability arises from improper detection of recursion during entity expansion, enabling a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via crafted PXML documents with a very large n...

CVE-2014-3243

Removed by vendor...