• @AgreeableLandscapeOPM
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    1 year ago

    Similarly, XML bombs exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack

    Presumably any markup language that allows recursive variables/definitions is vulrnable to this. Hell some markup languages are full-on Turing complete (Wiki pages for example) and therefore can be used to make honest to god infinite loops or maybe even directly run general purpose malicious code on a server.