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CVE 2011-2188

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.

See the CVE page on Mitre.org for more details.