CVE-2011-2188

LuaExpat before 1.2.0 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 XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Date published : 2011-06-20

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48123

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629225