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mediawiki: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):mediawiki CVE #(s):CVE-2008-5249 CVE-2008-5250 CVE-2008-5252 CVE-2008-5687 CVE-2008-5688
Created:December 24, 2008 Updated:October 5, 2009
Description:

From the Red Hat bugzilla:

* An XSS vulnerability affecting all MediaWiki installations between 1.13.0 and 1.13.2. [CVE-2008-5249]

* A local script injection vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer clients for all MediaWiki installations with uploads enabled. [CVE-2008-5250]

* A local script injection vulnerability affecting clients with SVG scripting capability (such as Firefox 1.5+), for all MediaWiki installations with SVG uploads enabled. [CVE-2008-5250]

* A CSRF vulnerability affecting the Special:Import feature, for all MediaWiki installations since the feature was introduced in 1.3.0. [CVE-2008-5252]

CVE-2008-5687: MediaWiki 1.11 through 1.13.3 does not properly protect against the download of backups of deleted images, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via requests for files in images/deleted/.

CVE-2008-5688: MediaWiki 1.8.1 through 1.13.3, when the wgShowExceptionDetails variable is enabled, sometimes provides the full installation path in a debugging message, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified requests that trigger an uncaught exception.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-1901-1 2009-10-05
SuSE SUSE-SR:2009:004 2009-02-17
Fedora FEDORA-2008-11802 2008-12-24
Fedora FEDORA-2008-11743 2008-12-24
Fedora FEDORA-2008-11688 2008-12-24

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