cve/2015/CVE-2015-2942.md

### [CVE-2015-2942](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2942)
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### Description

MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a large number of nested entity references in an (1) SVG file or (2) XMP metadata in a PDF file, aka a "billion laughs attack," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2937.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/0xCyberY/CVE-T4PDF
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon