PT-2012-5637 · Wikimedia · Mediawiki

Bawolff · Published 2012-09-09 · Updated 2012-09-10 · CVE-2012-4885

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions 1.17.x through 1.17.2 MediaWiki versions 1.18.x through 1.18.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop, via certain input to the wikitext parser, as demonstrated by the padleft function.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions 1.17.x through 1.17.2, update to version 1.17.3 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.18.x through 1.18.1, update to version 1.18.2 or later.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4885

Affected Products

Mediawiki

References · 13

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4885 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48504 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22555 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4885 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-4885 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4885 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4885 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/52689 · Note
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35315 · Note