National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0322
Original release date:01/19/2006
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability the edit comment formatting functionality in MediaWiki 1.5.x before 1.5.6 and 1.4.x before 1.4.14 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via "certain malformed links."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=386609
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-0392
External Source: XF
Name: mediawiki-comment-format-dos(24478)
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18717
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18711
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2006:003