Resource Management Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libsoap-lite-perl (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-LIBSOAPLITEPERL-623657
- published22 Nov 2016
- disclosed22 Nov 2016
Introduced: 22 Nov 2016
CVE-2015-8978 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libsoap-lite-perl package and not the libsoap-lite-perl package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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.