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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-04-13T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T05:32:20.575Z

Reserved: 2015-04-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-2942

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-04-13T14:59:15.367

Modified: 2016-12-07T18:11:06.490

Link: CVE-2015-2942

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