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Debian 9: DLA-2648-1 Moderate: MediaWiki Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey May 5, 2021
Dist Debian Esm H88
Various vulnerabilities identified in MediaWiki have been resolved. Ensure your packages are updated to uphold system integrity.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in mediawiki, a wiki website engine for collaborative work

Summary

CVE-2021-20270

An infinite loop in SMLLexer in Pygments used by mediawiki as
one if its lexers may lead to denial of service when performing
syntax highlighting of a Standard ML (SML) source file, as
demonstrated by input that only contains the "exception" keyword.

CVE-2021-27291

pygments, the lexers used by mediawiki rely heavily on regular
expressions. Some of the regular expressions have exponential or
cubic worst-case complexity and are vulnerable to ReDoS. By
crafting malicious input, an attacker can cause a denial of service.

CVE-2021-30152

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki. When using the MediaWiki
API to "protect" a page, a user is currently able to protect to a
higher level than they currently have permissions for.

CVE-2021-30155

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before. ContentModelChange
does not check if a user has correct permissions to create and set
the content model of a nonexistent page.

CVE-2021-30158

Read the Full Advisory


Package: mediawiki
Version: 1:1.27.7-1~deb9u8
CVE ID: CVE-2021-20270 CVE-2021-27291 CVE-2021-30152
Debian Bug: 985574 984664

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