Candidate: CVE-2015-2936
PublicDate: 2015-04-13 14:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2936
 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
Description:
 MediaWiki 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using PBKDF2 for password hashing,
 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via
 a long password.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS: 

Patches_mediawiki:
upstream_mediawiki: released (1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3)
lucid_mediawiki: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise_mediawiki: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_mediawiki: DNE (precise was needed)
trusty_mediawiki: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_mediawiki: DNE (trusty was needed)
utopic_mediawiki: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid_mediawiki: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_mediawiki: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_mediawiki: DNE
wily_mediawiki: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_mediawiki: DNE
yakkety_mediawiki: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_mediawiki: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_mediawiki: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_mediawiki: not-affected (1:1.27.4-3)
cosmic_mediawiki: not-affected (1:1.27.4-3)
disco_mediawiki: not-affected (1:1.27.4-3)
devel_mediawiki: not-affected (1:1.27.4-3)