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mediawiki: session fixation flaw

Package(s):mediawiki CVE #(s):CVE-2012-5391
Created:February 19, 2013 Updated:March 22, 2013
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

A session fixation flaw was found in the way MediaWiki, a wiki engine, performed maintenance of user session ids after user login / logout. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted URL that, when visited by an authenticated MediaWiki user, could allow the attacker to impersonate the victim.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2013-2090 2013-02-19
Fedora FEDORA-2013-3227 2013-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2013-3265 2013-03-22
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