[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: mediawiki-1.21.2-1.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-15984
2013-09-07 00:00:54
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Name        : mediawiki
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 1.21.2
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-1.21.2/README.RPM.
Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration.

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Update Information:

* SECURITY: Fix extension detection with 2 .'s
* SECURITY: Support for the 'gettoken' parameter to action=block and action=unblock, deprecated since 1.20, has been removed.
* SECURITY: Sanitize ResourceLoader exception messages
* Purge upstream caches when deleting file assets.
* Unit test suite now runs the AutoLoader tests. Also fixed the autoloading entry for the PageORMTableForTesting class though it had no impact.

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ChangeLog:

* Thu Sep  5 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.21.2-1
- New upstream release.
* Sat Jul 27 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.21.1-4
- Update mw-createinstance
* Wed Jul 10 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.21.1-3
- Fix Obsoletes
* Tue Jul  9 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.21.1-2
- Provide/Obsolete now included extensions (#967811)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1004538 - CVE-2013-4301 CVE-2013-4302 CVE-2013-4303 mediawiki: security releases 1.21.2, 1.20.7, and 1.19.8
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1004538
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update mediawiki' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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