-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-21856 2013-11-23 09:02:25 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : mediawiki Product : Fedora 19 Version : 1.21.3 Release : 1.fc19 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-1.21.3/README.RPM. Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Tue Nov 19 2013 Michael Cronenworth mike@cchtml.com - 1.21.3-1 - New upstream release. * Sat Oct 5 2013 Michael Cronenworth mike@cchtml.com - 1.21.2-2 - Packaging fixes. (#1006110, #1007377) * Thu Sep 5 2013 Michael Cronenworth mike@cchtml.com - 1.21.2-1 - New upstream release. * Sat Jul 27 2013 Michael Cronenworth mike@cchtml.com - 1.21.1-4 - Update mw-createinstance * Wed Jul 10 2013 Michael Cronenworth mike@cchtml.com - 1.21.1-3 - Fix Obsoletes * Tue Jul 9 2013 Michael Cronenworth mike@cchtml.com - 1.21.1-2 - Provide/Obsolete now included extensions (#967811) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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