CVE-2015-2936 Information

Description

MediaWiki 1.24.x before 1.24.2 when using PBKDF2 for password hashing allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password.

Reference

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64685 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05