[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: mediawiki119-1.19.3-3.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-2090
2013-02-08 01:09:50
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Name        : mediawiki119
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.19.3
Release     : 3.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

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Update Information:

Rebase to version 1.19.3.

Fixes CVE-2012-5391 amongst other bugfixes.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Dec  7 2012 Patrick Uiterwijk <puiterwijk at gmail.com> - 1.19.3-1
- Update to upstream 1.19.3
* Fri Dec  7 2012 Patrick Uiterwijk <puiterwijk at gmail.com> - 1.19.2-2
- Backported security fix for bug 40995 (RHBZ 882325)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #885016 - CVE-2012-5391 mediawiki: Vulnerable to session fixation attacks [epel-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885016
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update mediawiki119' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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