GSD-2018-20843
Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:22Details
In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for denial-of-service attacks).
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