CVE-2015-2937

NameCVE-2015-2937
DescriptionMediaWiki 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.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
mediawiki (PTS)bullseye1:1.35.13-1+deb11u2fixed
bullseye (security)1:1.35.13-1+deb11u3fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)1:1.39.10-1~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie1:1.39.10-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
mediawikisourcesqueeze(unfixed)end-of-life
mediawikisourcewheezy(unfixed)end-of-life
mediawikisource(unstable)1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3

Notes

[wheezy] - mediawiki <end-of-life> (Not supported in Wheezy LTS)
[squeeze] - mediawiki <end-of-life> (Not supported in Squeeze LTS)
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1

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