>> MediaWiki "Edit Comment" Feature Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Title : MediaWiki "Edit Comment" Feature Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0392 CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-02-01
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in MediaWiki, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an infinite loop in the "Edit Comment" feature that does not properly handle malformed links, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service by editing an arbitrary comment.
