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CVE-2015-2942

CVE-2015-2942

EPSS 2.8%
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.
Affected products
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References
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.htmlhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85848https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477