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Fedora alert FEDORA-2007-1442 (mediawiki)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: mediawiki-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7
Date:  Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:56:22 -0700
Message-ID:  <200708061756.l76HuOvm014444@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-1442 2007-08-06 10:56:19.560348 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : mediawiki Product : Fedora 7 Version : 1.9.3 Release : 34.0.2.fc7 Summary : A wiki engine Description : MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple servers This package supports wiki farms. Copy /var/www/wiki over to the desired wiki location and configure it through the web interface. Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes the following vulnerability: "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the AJAX features in index.php in MediaWiki 1.6.x through 1.9.2, when $wgUseAjax is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a UTF-7 encoded value of the rs parameter, which is processed by Internet Explorer." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Aug 6 2007 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@ATrpms.net> - 1.9.3-34.0.1 - Bump release to please koji/CVS. * Thu Feb 22 2007 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@ATrpms.net> - 1.9.3-34 - Update to 1.9.4. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #250819 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250819 [ 2 ] CVE-2007-1054 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-200... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated packages: ac48ef9e1b824ccd5c7def86e3bb2610c84ae5db mediawiki-debuginfo-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7.i386.rpm 77467b507c0c1a0df8b0101bb60a30e149614df5 mediawiki-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7.i386.rpm b475374a91e5bae04fdd01b6f8acbb878427a24a mediawiki-debuginfo-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7.x86_64.rpm 7526851cedc44a419f3584bc1cebd5ed8cc54c61 mediawiki-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7.x86_64.rpm 5493f768b83d0bb228d57d08034839e6432357ab mediawiki-debuginfo-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7.ppc.rpm 2a2c1deafadd9544d84cba39411b88969e3bb7b3 mediawiki-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7.ppc.rpm 93a61addf23f07ad4aa6f6951de337f1419fe9f0 mediawiki-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7.src.rpm This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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Fedora security update to mediawiki

Posted Aug 9, 2007 16:00 UTC (Thu) by tom123 (guest, #46685) [Link]

In mediawiki 1.9.2 I had a problem where my main page(although protected) was modified twice without sysop account access. --Tom

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