billion laughs
(Redirected from billion laughs attack)
English
editEtymology
editIn the most frequently cited example of such an attack, the first entity is the string lol (“laugh out loud”).
Noun
editbillion laughs pl (plural only)
- (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.