Enrico Tassi
2011-Jun-04 15:58 UTC
[Secure-testing-team] Bug#629225: Possible denial of service (AKA “billion laughs” attack)
Package: lua-expat Version: 1.1.0 Severity: important Tags: security Version 1.1.x of lua-expat exposes application to the DoS explained at: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipcfsx/index.html#N100F1 Version 1.2.0 (Released to cope with that) adds a couple of API to let application protect from this kind of attack. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, ''unstable''), (500, ''testing''), (150, ''experimental'') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash