Bug 2455129 (CVE-2018-25246) - CVE-2018-25246 Wikipedia: Wikipedia: Denial of service via oversized search input
Summary: CVE-2018-25246 Wikipedia: Wikipedia: Denial of service via oversized search i...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2018-25246
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2542262
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Reported: 2026-04-04 21:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-28 00:42 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-04 21:01:19 UTC 
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.
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