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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 |