Name: CVE-2013-1864: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2014-05-23T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2013-1864, CWE-119, CVSS 4.3, EPSS 0.02732

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."

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	Jan 9, 2013
Suse	—	Upgrade pwlib-plugins-avcUpgrade pwlib-plugins-v4l2Upgrade pwlib-plugins-dcUpgrade pwlibUpgrade pwlib-develUpgrade sle-sdk-release	Feb 20, 2014	Feb 20, 2014

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