CVE-2015-2942
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2942
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-2942.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-2942
- Downstream
- Published
- 2015-04-13T14:59:15Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85848
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477