Fedora 19 Update: mediawiki-1.23.6-1.fc19

Thu Nov 13 18:22:04 UTC 2014

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-14253
2014-11-05 02:55:44
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Name        : mediawiki
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 1.23.6
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-1.23.6/README.RPM.
Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration.

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Update Information:

* (bug 67440) Allow classes to be registered properly from installer
* (bug 72274) Job queue not running (HTTP 411) due to missing Content-Length: header
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Nov  3 2014 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.23.6-1
- Update to 1.23.6
- (bug 67440) Allow classes to be registered properly from installer
- (bug 72274) Job queue not running (HTTP 411) due to missing Content-Length: header
* Thu Oct  2 2014 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.23.5-1
- Update to 1.23.5
- CVE-2014-7295 (bug 70672) SECURITY: OutputPage: Remove separation of css and js module
  allowance.
* Fri Sep 26 2014 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.23.4-1
- Update to 1.23.4
- (bug 69008) SECURITY: Enhance CSS filtering in SVG files. Filter <style> elements; normalize style
  elements and attributes before filtering; add checks for attributes that contain css; add unit tests
  for html5sec and reported bugs.
- (bug 65998) Make MySQLi work with non-standard socket.
- (bug 66986) GlobalVarConfig shouldn't throw exceptions for null-valued config settings.
* Thu Aug 28 2014 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.23.3-1
- Update to 1.23.3
- (bug 68501) Correctly handle incorrect namespace in cleanupTitles.php.
- (bug 64970) Fix support for blobs on DatabaseOracle::update.
- (bug 66574) Display MediaWiki:Loginprompt on the login page.
- (bug 67870) wfShellExec() cuts off stdout at multiples of 8192 bytes.
- (bug 60629) Handle invalid language code gracefully in 
  Language::fetchLanguageNames.
- (bug 62017) Restore the number of rows shown on Special:Watchlist.
- Check for boolean false result from database query in SqlBagOStuff.
* Sat Aug 16 2014 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.23.2-1
- Update to 1.23.2 (long term support branch)
- (bug 68187) SECURITY: Prepend jsonp callback with comment.
- (bug 66608) SECURITY: Fix for XSS issue in bug 66608: Generate the URL used for loading 
  a new page in Javascript,instead of relying on the URL in the link that has been clicked.
- (bug 65778) SECURITY: Copy prevent-clickjacking between OutputPage and ParserOutput.
- (bug 68313) Preferences: Turn stubthreshold back into a combo box.
- (bug 65214) Fix initSiteStats.php maintenance script.
- (bug 67594) Special:ActiveUsers: Fix to work with PostgreSQL.
* Wed Jun 25 2014 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.21.11-1
- Update to 1.21.11
- (bug 65839) SECURITY: Prevent external resources in SVG files.
- (bug 66428) MimeMagic: Don't seek before BOF. This has weird side effects
  like only extracting the tail of the file partially or not at all.
* Sat May 31 2014 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.21.10-1
- Update to 1.21.10
- (bug 65501) SECURITY: Don't parse usernames as wikitext on Special:PasswordReset.
- (bug 36356) Add space between two feed links.
* Fri Apr 25 2014 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.21.9-1
- Update to 1.21.9
- (bug 63251) (CVE-2014-2853) SECURITY: Escape sortKey in pageInfo.
- (bug 58640) Fixed a compatibility issue with PCRE 8.34 that caused pages to appear blank or with missing text.
* Fri Mar 28 2014 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.21.8-1
- Update to 1.21.8
- (bug 62497) SECURITY: Add CSRF token on Special:ChangePassword.
- (bug 62467) Set a title for the context during import on the cli.
* Sat Mar  1 2014 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.21.6-1
- Update to 1.21.6
- (bug 60771) SECURITY: Disallow uploading SVG files using non-whitelisted namespaces. Also disallow iframe elements. User will get an error including the namespace name if they use a non- whitelisted namespace.
- (bug 61346) SECURITY: Make token comparison use constant time. It seems like our token comparison would be vulnerable to timing attacks. This will take constant time.
- (bug 61362) SECURITY: API: Don't find links in the middle of api.php links.
* Tue Jan 28 2014 Patrick Uiterwijk <puiterwijk at redhat.com> - 1.21.5-1
- Update to 1.21.5
- (bug 60339) (CVE-2014-1610) SECURITY: Reported RCE in djvu thumbnailing
* Tue Jan 14 2014 Patrick Uiterwijk <puiterwijk at redhat.com> - 1.21.4-1
- Security update to 1.19.10
- (bug 57550) (CVE-2013-6452) SECURITY: Disallow stylesheets in SVG Uploads
- (bug 58088) (CVE-2013-6451) SECURITY: Don't normalize U+FF3C to \ in CSS Checks
- (bug 58472) (CVE-2013-6454) SECURITY: Disallow -o-link in styles
- (bug 58553) (CVE-2013-6453) SECURITY: Return error on invalid XML for SVG Uploads
- (bug 58699) (CVE-2013-6472) SECURITY: Fix RevDel log entry information leaks
* Tue Nov 19 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.21.3-1
- New upstream release.
* Sat Oct  5 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.21.2-2
- Packaging fixes. (#1006110, #1007377)
* 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 #1159500 - mediawiki-1.23.6 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1159500
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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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