CVE-2015-2937

MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM or Zend PHP, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ("quadratic blowup" and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2942.

Score

CVSS 2.0 7.1 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2015-04-13

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Mediawiki (Mediawiki)

References

• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71210
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05