Vulnerability
Description
A Billion Laughs attack is an exponential entity expansion that can cripple parsers of markup languages like XML or YAML, leading to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
Recommendation
To prevent this type of attack, you can limit the memory allocated per parser, allowing for potential document loss. Alternatively, treat entities symbolically and expand them on an as-needed basis.
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