UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2942

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2942
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2942.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2942
Upstream
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:43:11Z
Published
2015-04-13T14:59:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T08:17:45.461414Z
Severity
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / mediawiki

Package

Name
mediawiki
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediawiki@1:1.27.4-3?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:1.27.4-3

Affected versions

1:1.*

1:1.27.3-1
1:1.27.4-1
1:1.27.4-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "mediawiki",
            "binary_version": "1:1.27.4-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "mediawiki-classes",
            "binary_version": "1:1.27.4-3"
        }
    ]
}