billion laughs

English

Etymology

In the most frequently cited example of such an attack, the first entity is the string "lol" (Internet slang for "laugh out loud").

Noun

billion laughs pl (plural only)

  1. (computer security) 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.

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