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CVE ID:CVE-2015-2942
Description:MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a large number of nested entity references in an (1) SVG file or (2) XMP metadata in a PDF file, aka a "billion laughs attack," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2937.
Test IDs: None available
Cross References: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-2942
BugTraq ID: 73477
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3




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