[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: mediawiki-1.19.9-1.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-21874
2013-11-23 09:03:03
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Name        : mediawiki
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.19.9
Release     : 1.fc18
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-1.19.9/README.RPM.
Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration.

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Update Information:

* Kevin Israel (Wikipedia user PleaseStand) identified and reported two vectors for injecting Javascript in CSS that bypassed MediaWiki's blacklist (CVE-2013-4567, CVE-2013-4568).
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55332>

* Internal review while debugging a site issue discovered that MediaWiki and the CentralNotice extension were incorrectly setting cache headers when a user was autocreated, causing the user's session cookies to be cached, and returned to other users (CVE-2013-4572).
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53032>


Additionally, the following extensions have been updated to fix security issues:

* CleanChanges: MediaWiki steward Teles reported that revision-deleted IP's are not correctly hidden when this extension is used (CVE-2013-4569).
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54294>

* ZeroRatedMobileAccess: Tomasz Chlebowski reported an XSS vulnerability (CVE-2013-4573).
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55991>

* CentralAuth: MediaWiki developer Platonides reported a login CSRF in CentralAuth (CVE-2012-5394).
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40747>
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Nov 19 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.9-1
- New upstream release.
* Thu Sep  5 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.8-1
- New upstream release.
* Sat Jul 27 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.7-4
- Re-enable Cite extension
- Update mw-createinstance
* Wed Jul 10 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.7-3
- Fix Obsoletes
* Tue Jul  9 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.7-2
- Provide/Obsolete now included extensions (#967811)
* Tue May 28 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.7-1
- New upstream release.
- Fixes CVE-2013-2114
* Tue May  7 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.6-1
- New upstream release.
- Obsolete mediawiki116 package.
* Wed Apr 17 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.5-1
- New upstream release.
* Thu Apr 11 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.4-3
- Update mw-* scripts. (#926899)
* Tue Mar 12 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.4-2
- Update mw-createinstance for new access points.
* Mon Mar  4 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.4-1
- New upstream release.
* Thu Feb 28 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.3-2
- Fix upgrade path.
* Wed Feb 27 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.3-1
- New upstream release.
* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.16.5-62
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1030987 - CVE-2013-4567 CVE-2013-4568 CVE-2013-4572 mediawiki: security releases 1.21.3, 1.20.8, and 1.19.9
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1030987
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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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