CVE-2015-8978 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2015-8978 Interim 1 14 2022-10-15T16:47:58Z current 2021-05-30T13:36:34Z 2022-10-15T16:47:58Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2015-8978 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. The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2016-December/002453.html E-Mail link for SUSE-SU-2016:3052-1 https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 perl-SOAP-Lite perl-SOAP-Lite-0.710.08-3.1 perl-SOAP-Lite-0.710.08-3.1 as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 perl-SOAP-Lite as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 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. CVE-2015-8978 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:perl-SOAP-Lite-0.710.08-3.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2:perl-SOAP-Lite moderate 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P