CVE-2015-8978

Name	CVE-2015-8978
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-723-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
libsoap-lite-perl (PTS)	buster, bullseye	1.27-1	fixed
	sid, trixie, bookworm	1.27-3	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
libsoap-lite-perl	source	wheezy	0.714-1+deb7u1		DLA-723-1
libsoap-lite-perl	source	(unstable)	1.19-1

Notes

[jessie] - libsoap-lite-perl <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/redhotpenguin/soaplite/pull/21
https://github.com/redhotpenguin/soaplite/commit/6942fe0d281be1c32c5117605f9c4e8d44f51124