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FreeBSD: VID-F84AB297-2285-11EC-9E79-08002789875B (CVE-2021-41800): mediawiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

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FreeBSD: VID-F84AB297-2285-11EC-9E79-08002789875B (CVE-2021-41800): mediawiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/24/2021
Created
11/08/2022
Added
11/04/2022
Modified
11/04/2022

Description

MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows a denial of service (resource consumption because of lengthy query processing time). Visiting Special:Contributions can sometimes result in a long running SQL query because PoolCounter protection is mishandled.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-mediawiki131
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-mediawiki135
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-mediawiki136

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