medium4.3
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 r…
Impact
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."
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Opalvoip | Portable Tool Library | Versions 2.10.1, 2.10.2, 2.10.7, 2.10.9 |
| Ekiga | Ekiga | through 4.0.0 |
| Suse | Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit | Version 11.0 |
| Suse | Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop | Version 11.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/099553.html
- http://osvdb.org/91439
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/674
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52659
- http://sourceforge.net/p/opalvoip/code/28856
- http://www.ekiga.org/news/2013-02-21/ekiga-4.0.1-stable-available
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58520
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82885
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2014/suse-su-20140237-1.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/099553.html
- http://osvdb.org/91439
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/674
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52659
- http://sourceforge.net/p/opalvoip/code/28856
- http://www.ekiga.org/news/2013-02-21/ekiga-4.0.1-stable-available
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58520
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82885
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2014/suse-su-20140237-1.html