CVE-2013-1864

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-1864
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-05-23 14:55:09 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionThe 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."

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ekiga Ekiga All All All All
Application Opalvoip Portable Tool Library 2.10.1 All All All
Application Opalvoip Portable Tool Library 2.10.2 All All All
Application Opalvoip Portable Tool Library 2.10.7 All All All
Application Opalvoip Portable Tool Library 2.10.9 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11.0 sp3 All All
Application Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11.0 sp3 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Security Advisory SA52659 - Ptlib Entity Expansion Denial of Service Vulnerability - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
PTLib CVE-2013-1864 XML Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
osvdb.org/91439 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: ptlib-2.10.10-1.fc18 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
Ekiga 4.0.1 [STABLE] available | Ekiga ~ Free Your Speech af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ekiga.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
SUSE-SU-2014:0237-1 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.suse.com
oss-sec: Re: CVE request: billion laughs flaw in ptlib af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org
Page not found - SourceForge.net af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net Exploit, Patch
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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