billion laughs
Meanings
noun
- A type of denial-of-service attack which is aimed at parsers of XML documents, based on defining entities that expand to large numbers of copies of other entities.
Word forms
Etymology
In the most frequently cited example of such an attack, the first entity is the string lol (“laugh out loud”).
Related words
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