Upstream information

CVE-2003-1564 at MITRE

Description

libxml2, possibly before 2.5.0, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, aka the "billion laughs attack."

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 9.3
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1159488 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 509825 [RESOLVED / DUPLICATE], 510301 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

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Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP2 libapr-util1 Released
SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for SAP Enterprise Search libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 libapr-util1 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS libapr-util1 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS libapr-util1 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS libapr-util1 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP1 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP2 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Business All-in-One 11 SP1 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 libapr-util1 Released
SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3 libapr-util1 Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:40:56 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Sep 9 20:55:32 2024