CVE-2015-2937

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2937
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-2937.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-2937
Downstream
Related
Published
2015-04-13T14:59:10Z
Modified
2025-04-12T10:46:40Z
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 or Zend PHP, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ("quadratic blowup" and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2942.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / mediawiki

Package

Name
mediawiki
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mediawiki?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / mediawiki

Package

Name
mediawiki
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mediawiki?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / mediawiki

Package

Name
mediawiki
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mediawiki?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}