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MediaWiki Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2015-2942 - Vulnerability Database
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MediaWiki Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2015-2942

High
Reference: CVE-2015-2942
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2942
Title: MediaWiki Resource Management Errors Vulnerability
Overview:

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 quotbillion laughs attackquot a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2937.