[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: mediawiki-1.21.3-1.fc19
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-21856
2013-11-23 09:02:25
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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.
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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(a)cchtml.com> - 1.21.3-1
- New upstream release.
* Sat Oct 5 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike(a)cchtml.com> - 1.21.2-2
- Packaging fixes. (#1006110, #1007377)
* Thu Sep 5 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike(a)cchtml.com> - 1.21.2-1
- New upstream release.
* Sat Jul 27 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike(a)cchtml.com> - 1.21.1-4
- Update mw-createinstance
* Wed Jul 10 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike(a)cchtml.com> - 1.21.1-3
- Fix Obsoletes
* Tue Jul 9 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike(a)cchtml.com> - 1.21.1-2
- Provide/Obsolete now included extensions (#967811)
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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/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
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