FreeRDP: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via specially crafted Remote Desktop Protocol messages

A flaw was found in FreeRDP, a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol RDP. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted RDP message. This can lead to an undefined behavior where a wrapped value is used as a shift exponent, causing an approximately ...

Researchers built a chatbot that only knows the world before 1931

The internet's chatbots have read every forum rant, leaked Slack log, and confident blog post your uncle ever wrote about chemtrails. The results are predictable: they reflect the state of the internet, and it isn't pretty. That, along with some questionable design decisions, is partly why Elon...

CLSA-2026-1776440644 expat: Fix of 4 CVEs

CVE-2017-9233: fix external entity infinite loop in entityValueInitProcessor and entityValueProcessor - CVE-2023-52425: add reparse deferral heuristic to prevent On^2 parsing of large tokens in small buffer refills; fix buffer growth calculation - CVE-2013-0340: add billion laughs entity...

CLSA-2026-1776441769 expat: Fix of 4 CVEs

CVE-2017-9233: fix external entity infinite loop in entityValueInitProcessor and entityValueProcessor - CVE-2023-52425: add reparse deferral heuristic to prevent On^2 parsing of large tokens in small buffer refills; fix buffer growth calculation - CVE-2013-0340: add billion laughs entity...

CLSA-2026-1776441540 expat: Fix of 4 CVEs

CVE-2017-9233: fix external entity infinite loop in entityValueInitProcessor and entityValueProcessor - CVE-2023-52425: add reparse deferral heuristic to prevent On^2 parsing of large tokens in small buffer refills; fix buffer growth calculation - CVE-2013-0340: add billion laughs entity...

ruby: REXML billion laughs attack via parameter entity expansion

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion XEE attack...

CVE-2026-29074 SVGO: DoS through entity expansion in DOCTYPE (Billion Laughs)

SVGO, short for SVG Optimizer, is a Node.js library and command-line application for optimizing SVG files. From version 2.1.0 to before version 2.8.1, from version 3.0.0 to before version 3.3.3, and before version 4.0.1, SVGO accepts XML with custom entities, without guards against entity expansi...

CVE-2026-29074 SVGO: DoS through entity expansion in DOCTYPE (Billion Laughs)

SVGO, short for SVG Optimizer, is a Node.js library and command-line application for optimizing SVG files. From version 2.1.0 to before version 2.8.1, from version 3.0.0 to before version 3.3.3, and before version 4.0.1, SVGO accepts XML with custom entities, without guards against entity expansi...

CVE-2026-27807 MarkUs: YAML alias (‘billion laughs’) DoS in config upload

MarkUs is a web application for the submission and grading of student assignments. Prior to version 2.9.4, MarkUs allows course instructors to upload YAML files to create/update various entities e.g., assignment settings. These YAML files are parsed with aliases enabled. This issue has been patch...

CVE-2026-27807

MarkUs (web app for assignment submission/grading) is affected by CVE-2026-27807 due to YAML files parsed with aliases enabled, enabling a billion‑laughs style DoS. The issue affects configurations uploaded prior to v2.9.4, where YAML parsing could be abused to exhaust resources. The CVSS vector ...

XML Entity Expansion (Billion Laughs)

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion Billion Laughs when parsing of custom XML entities in DOCTYPE. An attacker can cause the application to consume excessive memory by submitting malicious SVG files containing recursive entity references. Workaround F...

XML Entity Expansion (Billion Laughs)

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion Billion Laughs when parsing of custom XML entities in DOCTYPE. An attacker can cause the application to consume excessive memory by submitting malicious SVG files containing recursive entity references. Workaround F...

GHSA-XPQW-6GX7-V673 SVGO DoS through entity expansion in DOCTYPE (Billion Laughs)

Summary SVGO accepts XML with custom entities, without guards against entity expansion or recursion. This can result in a small XML file 811 bytes stalling the application and even crashing the Node.js process with JavaScript heap out of memory. Details The upstream XML parser sax doesn't interpr...

SVGO DoS through entity expansion in DOCTYPE (Billion Laughs)

Summary SVGO accepts XML with custom entities, without guards against entity expansion or recursion. This can result in a small XML file 811 bytes stalling the application and even crashing the Node.js process with JavaScript heap out of memory. Details The upstream XML parser sax doesn't interpr...

Evaluating and Enhancing the Vulnerability Reasoning Capabilities of Large Language Models

Large Language Models LLMs have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in vulnerability detection. However, a critical reliability gap persists: models frequently yield correct detection verdicts based on hallucinated logic or superficial patterns that deviate from the actual root cause. This...

TikTok narrowly avoids a US ban by spinning up a new American joint venture

TikTok may have found a way to stay online in the US. The company announced late last week that it has set up a joint venture backed largely by US investors. TikTok announced T ikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC on Friday in a deal valued at about $14 billion , allowing it to continue operating in the...

PT-2026-4631

📱Critical Bluetooth vulnerability CVE-2025-13834 disclosed! This RFCOMM flaw is a "Bluetooth Heartbleed" allowing unauthenticated memory read on 2.8B devices via a single malformed packet. https://t.co/7tYyP9ixpK cybersecurity infosec CVE Bluetooth vulnerability...

MiracleLinux 8 : prometheus-jmx-exporter-0.12.0-6.el8 (AXSA:2021-1339:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2021-1339:01 advisory. snakeyaml: Billion laughs attack via alias feature CVE-2017-18640 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux securi...

CVE-2017-18369

The Billion 5200W-T 1.02b.rc5.dt49 router distributed by TrueOnline has a command injection vulnerability in the Remote System Log forwarding function, which is accessible by an unauthenticated user. The vulnerability is in the advremotelog.asp page and can be exploited through the syslogServerAd...

CLSA-2026-1767799681 expat: Fix of 3 CVEs

Rebase to version 2.5.0 - CVE-2024-28757: prevent billion laughs attacks in isolated external parser part of 839, reject direct parameter entity recursion part of 839 - CVE-2025-59375: fix memory amplification and add allocation tracker - CVE-2013-0340: properly handle entities expansion...