[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: mediawiki-1.23.4-1.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-11717
2014-09-27 08:49:46
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Name        : mediawiki
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 1.23.4
Release     : 1.fc21
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/README.RPM.
Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration.

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Update Information:

* (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.

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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1146515 - CVE-2014-7199 mediawiki: security update
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146515
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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/.

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