CVE-2015-2937 Information

Description

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.

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/T71210 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05