On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 01:08:33PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> This is no different than CVE-2013-0338 and CVE-2013-0339[*]. The
> point is that from a small document, one can exhaust the memory
> of the machine. CVE-2013-0338 and CVE-2013-0339 are about entity
> expansion, but there are the same consequences with just loading
> data in memory.
> 
> [*] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/22/3

If you believe so, and you confirmed that it hasn't been fixed in the
past 15 years, could you please either (or both):
 * report it to mitre's CVE form
 * report it in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues
?

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