Fedora alert FEDORA-2015-5567dd228a (mediawiki)
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| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: mediawiki-1.26.2-1.fc23 | |
| Date: | Sat, 2 Jan 2016 22:24:03 +0000 (UTC) | |
| Message-ID: | <20160102222403.9D68760173A6@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-5567dd228a 2016-01-02 19:00:53.591195 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : mediawiki Product : Fedora 23 Version : 1.26.2 Release : 1.fc23 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/README.RPM. Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Changes since 1.26.1 * (bug T121892) Various special pages resulted in fatal errors. Changes since 1.26.0 * (bug T117899) SECURITY: $wgArticlePath can no longer be set to relative paths that do not begin with a slash. This enabled trivial XSS attacks. Configuration values such as "http://my.wiki.com/wiki/$1" are fine, as are "/wiki/$1". A value such as "$1" or "wiki/$1" is not and will now throw an error * (bug T119309) SECURITY: Use hash_compare() for edit token comparison * (bug T118032) SECURITY: Don't allow cURL to interpret POST parameters starting with '@' as file uploads * (bug T115522) SECURITY: Passwords generated by User::randomPassword() can no longer be shorter than $wgMinimalPasswordLength * (bug T97897) SECURITY: Improve IP parsing and trimming. Previous behavior could result in improper blocks being issued * (bug T109724) SECURITY: Special:MyPage, Special:MyTalk, Special:MyContributions and related pages no longer use HTTP redirects and are now redirected by MediaWiki * Fixed ConfigException in ExpandTemplates due to AlwaysUseTidy. * Fixed stray literal \n in Special:Search. * Fix issue that breaks HHVM Repo Authorative mode. * (bug T120267) Work around APCu memory corruption bug -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1293847 - mediawiki: multiple flaws fixed in 1.26.1, 1.25.4, 1.24.5, and 1.23.12 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1293847 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 https://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-...