Subject: [Bug 167] New: XML_ENTITY_DOS

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:52:57 -0700

http://ietf.cse.ucsc.edu:8080/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167

           Summary: XML_ENTITY_DOS
           Product: WebDAV-RFC2518-bis
           Version: -07
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: 19.  Security Considerations
        AssignedTo: [email-masked]
        ReportedBy: [email-masked]
         QAContact: [email-masked]

Recursive entity declarations can be used for effective DOS attacks, and thus
WebDAV MUST allow servers to reject these kind of requests, even though they may
be well-formed).

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2003JanMar/0402.html

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