Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:11465Denial Of Service (DoS)
EPSS
Percentile
83.6%
libxml2.so is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS). parser.c does not prevent entity expansion properly which would allow a remote attacker to provide a specially crafted XML file to cause excessive entity substitutions even if entity substituion was disabled, causing a denial of service condition.
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