CVE-2013-1864 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2013-1864

The Portable Tool Library (aka PTLib) before 2.10.10, as used...

Vulnerability Description

The 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."

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

portable tool library, ekiga, suse linux enterprise software development kit, suse linux enterprise desktop
Vulnerable Versions:
2.10.1, 2.10.2, 2.10.7, 2.10.9, 0, 11.0

Timeline

Official Publish: May 23rd, 2014
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.