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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-3227 (mediawiki)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: mediawiki-1.19.4-2.fc17
Date:  Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:45:33 +0000
Message-ID:  <20130322004533.2D03221A1B@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-3227 2013-03-02 19:15:53 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : mediawiki Product : Fedora 17 Version : 1.19.4 Release : 2.fc17 URL : http://www.mediawiki.org/ 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. Read the instructions for creating wiki instances under /usr/share/doc/mediawiki-1.19.4/README.RPM. Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Bring mediawiki up to date to fix multiple bugs, security holes, and bring new features. The package should automatically attempt to upgrade your wiki, but please make sure to perform backups before updating. Special care may be required for MySQL based wikis. See bug 845818. Read the main mediawiki web site for Release Notes for 1.17, 1.18, and 1.19. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Mar 12 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike@cchtml.com> - 1.19.4-2 - Update mw-createinstance for new access points. * Mon Mar 4 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike@cchtml.com> - 1.19.4-1 - New upstream release. * Thu Feb 28 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike@cchtml.com> - 1.19.3-2 - Fix upgrade path. * Wed Feb 27 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike@cchtml.com> - 1.19.3-1 - New upstream release. * Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.16.5-62 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jul 20 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.16.5-61 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #882325 - CVE-2012-5391 mediawiki: Vulnerable to session fixation attacks https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882325 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update mediawiki' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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