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ghsa-mmcv-w5m4-3p9m

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-17 03:28

Modified

2022-05-17 03:28

Details

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.

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  "id": "GHSA-mmcv-w5m4-3p9m",
  "modified": "2022-05-17T03:28:17Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T03:28:17Z",
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    },
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cve-2015-2942

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2015-04-13 14:00

Modified

2024-08-06 05:32

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85848	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

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Product

Version

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