CVE-2015-6735 Information

Description

The reset functionality in the TimedMediaHandler extension for MediaWiki does not create a new transcode which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (transcode deletion) by resetting a transcode.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76362 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100211 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05