Security Advisory

CVE-2015-2942

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-04-13 14:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 05:32:20

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

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.

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