CVE-2013-1864

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 None
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."
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2013-1864
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2014-05-23T14:55:09
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2017-08-29T01:33:11
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-119 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:opalvoip:portable_tool_library:2.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:opalvoip:portable_tool_library:2.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:opalvoip:portable_tool_library:2.10.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:opalvoip:portable_tool_library:2.10.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:ekiga:ekiga:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 4.0.0
cpe:2.3:a:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit:11.0:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_desktop:11.0:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58520
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/099553.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52659
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2014/suse-su-20140237-1.html
http://sourceforge.net/p/opalvoip/code/28856 Exploit Patch
http://osvdb.org/91439
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/674
http://www.ekiga.org/news/2013-02-21/ekiga-4.0.1-stable-available Patch Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82885
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1864
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1864
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 08:46:50 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-01 23:13:52 2014-05-23T14:55Z 2014-05-23T14:55:09 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-01 23:13:52 2017-08-29T01:33:11 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-01 23:13:52 Modified Vulnerability Status updated