Comment 2 for bug 1100282
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| Dolph Mathews (dolph) wrote Re: DoS through XML entity expansion | #2 |
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I wrote a 4KB request similar to the above that took about 10 minutes to consume > 1 GB server memory.
Thierry's suggestion fixes the DoS vulnerability, but then the same request will still return a 500 as the subsequent code doesn't know how to deal with XML Entities.
The attached patch completely ignores XML entities, comments, and processing instructions -- the sample request above now results in a quick 401 Unauthorized, as expected.