CVE-2015-8978

Priority
Description
In Soap Lite (aka the SOAP::Lite extension for Perl) 1.14 and earlier, an
example attack consists of defining 10 or more XML entities, each defined
as consisting of 10 of the previous entity, with the document consisting of
a single instance of the largest entity, which expands to one billion
copies of the first entity. The amount of computer memory used for handling
an external SOAP call would likely exceed that available to the process
parsing the XML.
Notes
Package
Upstream:released (1.14)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:not-affected
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:DNE (trusty was needed)
Patches:
Upstream:https://github.com/redhotpenguin/soaplite/commit/6942fe0d281be1c32c5117605f9c4e8d44f51124
More Information

Updated: 2022-04-13 12:08:47 UTC (commit f411bd370d482ef4385c4e751d121a4055fbc009)