billion laughs attack

English

Etymology

In the most frequently cited example of such an attack, the first entity is the string "lol".

Noun

billion laughs attack (plural billion laughs attacks)

  1. (computer security) A type of denial-of-service attack which is aimed at parsers of XML documents.
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