billion laughs
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
In the most frequently cited example of such an attack, the first entity is the string lol (“laugh out loud”).
Noun[edit]
billion 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.