Bug 2542262

Summary:	CVE-2018-25246 python-wikipedia: Wikipedia: Denial of service via oversized search input [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	python-wikipedia	Assignee:	MartinKG <mgansser>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	mgansser
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2026-09-28 00:42:21 UTC

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Wikipedia 12.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting oversized input through the search functionality. Attackers can paste a large buffer of repeated characters into the search bar to trigger an application crash.