billion laughs
billion laughs · billion laughses
A type of denial-of-service attack which is aimed at parsers of XML documents, based…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.
Meaning
1 senses(plural, plural only)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.
Origin
In the most frequently cited example of such an attack, the first entity is the string lolIn the most frequently cited example of such an attack, the first entity is the string lol (“laugh out loud”).
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Forms
plural: billion laughses| Singular | billion laughs |
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