CVE-2011-2188

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2011-2188 · Published 21/06/2011 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2011-2188 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting luaexpat (matthewwild).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 77.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
luaexpat matthewwild	`= 1.0= 1.0.1= 1.0.2≤ 1.1.0`	No fix yet

Description

LuaExpat before 1.2.0 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 XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

References

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
secunia.com/advisories/44866 · Vendor Advisory
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/19
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/4
securityfocus.com/bid/48123
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67862

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