CVE-2012-3398 - Skinking Excuse

Description

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.

Reference

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=refs%2Fheads%2FMOODLE_22_STABLE&st=commit&s=MDL-32126 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/17/1 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76964 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54481 http://secunia.com/advisories/49890