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CVE-2015-2942

Fixed in a distro release EPSS 3%

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.

Published 2015-04-13 · CVE record · OSV

Products: mediawiki

Distro releases

ReleasePackageFixed in
Debian 12mediawiki1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
Debian 13mediawiki1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
Debian 14mediawiki1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3