cve-2012-3398
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-07-23 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 20:05
Severity ?
Summary
Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.19, 2.0.x before 2.0.10, 2.1.x before 2.1.7, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by using the advanced-search feature on a database activity that has many records.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=refs%2Fheads%2FMOODLE_22_STABLE&st=commit&s=MDL-32126
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/17/1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/49890
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54481
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76964
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