DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8978

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8978

    Published: 22 Nov 2016Last Modified: 9 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-8978

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8978

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libsoap-lite-perl

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/libsoap-lite-perl?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.19-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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