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Tip: Configure SAX parsers for secure processing. Explains the billion laughs attack, among others. # 23rd August 2008, 11:12 am
DoS vulnerability in REXML. Ruby’s REXML library is susceptible to the “billion laughs” denial of service attack where recursively nested entities expand a single entitity reference to a billion characters (kind of like the exploding zip file attack). Rails applications that process user-supplied XML should apply the monkey-patch ASAP; a proper gem update is forthcoming. # 23rd August 2008, 11:11 am
Parsing XML can open network sockets (via) Yikes. Something to bare in mind. # 18th August 2006, 2:27 pm
XML security on SitePoint
Getting Started with XML Security is a SitePoint article of epic proportions. I had never really looked at any of the XML security applications but this article appears to cover the lot.
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