CVE-2012-4885 Information

Description

The wikitext parser in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via certain input as demonstrated by the padleft function.

Reference

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html http://secunia.com/advisories/48504 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22555 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35315