CVE-2015-8978 Detail
Deferred
This CVE record is not being prioritized for NVD enrichment efforts due to resource or other concerns. DescriptionIn 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. Metrics
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Denotes Vulnerable Software Quick InfoCVE Dictionary Entry:CVE-2015-8978 NVD Published Date: 11/22/2016 NVD Last Modified: 04/12/2025 Source: MITRE |
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