Security Advisory

CVE-2021-42040

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-10-06 20:28:59
Last updated 2024-08-04 03:22:25
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. A parser function related to loop control allowed for an infinite loop (and php-fpm hang) within the Loops extension because egLoopsCountLimit is mishandled. This could lead to memory exhaustion.