GHSA-CG8J-5CR2-568Q Moodle TeX formula editor is vulnerable to DoS through lack of execution time limits

A Denial of Service vulnerability was identified in Moodle’s TeX formula editor. When rendering TeX content using mimetex, insufficient execution time limits could allow specially crafted formulas to consume excessive server resources. An authenticated user could abuse this behavior to degrade...

PT-2026-21356

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle affected versions not specified Description A denial-of-service issue exists in Moodle’s TeX formula editor. Insufficient execution time limits when rendering TeX content using mimetex could allow specially crafted formulas to consume...

Buffer overflow

The varexport function in PHP 5.2 before 5.2.14 and 5.3 before 5.3.3 flushes the output buffer to the user when certain fatal errors occur, even if displayerrors is off, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by causing the application to exceed limits for memory, execution...