CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-6736
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-09-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-17
Description
The Quiz extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via regex metacharacters in a regular expression.
Affected configurations
• quiz project quiz
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76362 www.securityfocus.com
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 security.gentoo.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76362 www.securityfocus.com
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 security.gentoo.org