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Debian: CVE-2021-41799: mediawiki -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2021-41799: mediawiki -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/11/2021
Created
11/30/2021
Added
11/29/2021
Modified
11/29/2021

Description

MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows a denial of service (resource consumption because of lengthy query processing time). ApiQueryBacklinks (action=query&list=backlinks) can cause a full table scan.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-mediawiki

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