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GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2017-9

GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2017-9
Advisory Published
Vulnetix · Advisory published January 7, 2017
Subversion's mod_dontdothat module and clients using http(s):// are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack caused by exponential XML entity expansion. The attack, otherwise known as the "billion laughs attack", targets XML parsers and can cause the targeted process to consume an excessive amount of CPU resources or memory (CVE-2016-8734).

Affected Products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Mageiamailman2.1.20-3.1.mga5 (unaffected), 0 (affected)
Mageiasubversion0 (affected), 0 (affected), 1.8.17-1.mga5 (unaffected), 1.8.17-1.mga5 (unaffected)

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