🔗 Billion laughs attack
🔗 Computer Security
🔗 Computer Security/Computing
In computer security, a billion laughs attack is a type of denial-of-service (DoS) attack which is aimed at parsers of XML documents.
It is also referred to as an XML bomb or as an exponential entity expansion attack.
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