PT-2015-7325 · Mediawiki · Timedmediahandler Extension

Mczusatz · Published 2015-09-01 · Updated 2016-12-07 · CVE-2015-6735

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 TimedMediaHandler extension (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns the reset functionality in the TimedMediaHandler extension for MediaWiki, which fails to create a new transcode. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by deleting a transcode when the reset functionality is used.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-17

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-6735

Affected Products

Timedmediahandler Extension

References · 8

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6735 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/76362 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6 · Note
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100211 · Note