-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-6335 2010-04-10 08:52:09 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : mediawiki Product : Fedora 12 Version : 1.15.3 Release : 53.fc12 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. Copy /var/www/wiki over to the desired wiki location and configure it through the web interface. Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This is a security and bugfix release of MediaWiki 1.15.3. Three security issues are fixed in this update: A CSS validation issue was discovered which allows editors to display external images in wiki pages. A data leakage vulnerability was discovered in thumb.php which affects wikis which restrict access to private files using img_auth.php, or some similar scheme. MediaWiki was found to be vulnerable to login CSRF. The upstrea authors recommend that all public wikis should be upgraded if possible. The fix includes a breaking change to the API login action. Any clients using it will need to be updated. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Apr 7 2010 Axel Thimm <[email protected]> - 1.15.3-53 - Update to 1.15.3 (Fixes login CSRF vulnerability). * Wed Mar 31 2010 Axel Thimm <[email protected]> - 1.15.2-51 - Update to 1.15.2 (Fixes CSS validation issue and data leakage vulnerability). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #571926 - CVE-2010-1189 CVE-2010-1190 MediaWiki: Two security fixes in v1.15.2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=571926 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
