CVE-2013-1864

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…

published May 23, 2014

CVSS
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EPSS
3%
Percentile
86.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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."

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02850 · 86.6th percentile
Published
2014-05-23T14:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 MAY 14:00Z
    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…
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