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Debian: DSA-2891-3 Important Fixes for MediaWiki Regresions and Attacks

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Calendar Grey April 4, 2014
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Enhance your Mediawiki installation promptly to mitigate several vulnerabilities and resolve recent bugs affecting Debian platforms.
The Mediawiki update issued as DSA 2891-1 caused regressions

Summary

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in MediaWiki, a wiki engine.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project describers the followin
issues:

CVE-2013-2031

Cross-site scripting attack via valid UTF-7 encoded sequences
in a SVG file.

CVE-2013-4567 & CVE-2013-4568

Kevin Israel (Wikipedia user PleaseStand) reported two ways
to inject Javascript due to an incomplete blacklist in the
CSS sanitizer function.

CVE-2013-4572

MediaWiki and the CentralNotice extension were incorrectly setting
cache headers when a user was autocreated, causing the user's
session cookies to be cached, and returned to other users.

CVE-2013-6452

Chris from RationalWiki reported that SVG files could be
uploaded that include external stylesheets, which could lead to
XSS when an XSL was used to include JavaScript.

CVE-2013-6453

MediaWiki's SVG sanitization could be bypassed when the XML was
considered invalid.

CVE-2013-6454

MediaWiki's CSS sanitization did not filter -o-link ...

Read the Full Advisory

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Package: mediawiki, mediawiki-extensions
CVE ID: CVE-2013-2031 CVE-2013-4567 CVE-2013-4568 CVE-2013-4572

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