FKIE_CVE-2015-6735

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2015-09-01 14:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:31
Severity
Summary
The reset functionality in the TimedMediaHandler extension for MediaWiki does not create a new transcode, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (transcode deletion) by resetting a transcode.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76362
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.htmlVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100211
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76362
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100211
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
timedmediahandler_project timedmediahandler -
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