[Secure-testing-team] Bug#629225: Possible denial of service (AKA “billion laughs” attack)

[Enrico Tassi]

Package: lua-expat
Version: 1.1.0
Severity: important
Tags: security

Version 1.1.x of lua-expat exposes application to the DoS explained at:

  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipcfsx/index.html#N100F1

Version 1.2.0 (Released to cope with that) adds a couple of API to let
application
protect from this kind of attack.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash