[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: mediawiki-1.16.4-58.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-5807
2011-04-22 20:59:59
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Name        : mediawiki
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 1.16.4
Release     : 58.fc13
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-1.16.4/README.RPM.
Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration.

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Update Information:

This update brings mediawiki to version 1.16.4, which is the latest stable release at the moment, but currently also the only supported and recommended release by the mediawiki developer community.

Further changes:
* some simple wiki management functionality was added:
  * mw-createinstance <path> creates a wiki instance under
    <path>, which is autoupgraded upon package updates.
  * any wiki path entered in /etc/mediawiki/instances will be
    autoupgraded upon package updates.
  * /var/www/wiki is entered into this list automatically, but
    you can remove it if you don't want this instance to be
    autoupgraded.
* opensearch and suggestions are enabled by default
* several bug fixes (see changelog).
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Apr 22 2011 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> - 1.16.4-58
- texvc was being accidentially wiped out before packaging it.
* Sat Apr 16 2011 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> - 1.16.4-57
- Update to 1.16.4.
* Sun Apr  3 2011 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> - 1.16.2-56
- Update to 1.16.2.
- Fixes RH bugs #614065, #644325, #682281, #662402
- Enable suggestions while typing in search boxes by default.
- Add some basic mediawiki management scripts.
* Fri Sep 10 2010 Nick Bebout <nb at fedoraproject.org> - 1.15.4-55
- Mark mediawiki.conf as config(noreplace) (RH bug #614396).
* Mon Jul  5 2010 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> - 1.15.4-54
- Update to 1.5.14 (Fixes CVE-2010-1647 CVE-2010-1648).
- Change BR php to php-common (RH bug #549822).
* Wed Apr  7 2010 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> - 1.15.3-53
- Update to 1.15.3 (Fixes login CSRF vulnerability).
* Wed Mar 31 2010 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> - 1.15.2-51
- Update to 1.15.2 (Fixes CSS validation issue and data leakage
  vulnerability).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #697434 - texvc binary missing and deal link in package mediawiki-math-1.16.2-56.fc14.x86_64
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697434
  [ 2 ] Bug #614065 - mediawiki opensearch_desc.php has bad path
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=614065
  [ 3 ] Bug #644325 - /etc/httpd/conf.d/mediawiki.conf has execute permission
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644325
  [ 4 ] Bug #682281 - Mediawiki uses the reserved word Namespace introduced in latest release of PHP
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682281
  [ 5 ] Bug #662402 - Cannot enable math display for mediawiki
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662402
  [ 6 ] Bug #674456 - CVE-2011-0047 mediawiki: multiple vulnerabilities corrected in mediawiki 1.16.2 [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674456
  [ 7 ] Bug #667201 - CVE-2011-0003 mediawiki: clickjacking vulnerability [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667201
  [ 8 ] Bug #620226 - CVE-2010-2787 CVE-2010-2788 mediawiki various flaws [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620226
  [ 9 ] Bug #696361 - CVE-2011-1578 CVE-2011-1579 CVE-2011-1580 mediawiki: multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 1.16.3 [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696361
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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/.

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