Billion laughs attack

Noun

Definitions

1.NounA 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.

Synonyms

xml bomb mail bomb denial of service smurf attack denial-of-service attack dictionary attack letter bomb smurf dictionary attacker lolbin fraggle attack ddos

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