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Debian: DSA-3011-1 Critical: MediaWiki JSONP Injection and Clickjacking

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Calendar Grey August 23, 2014
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Enhance MediaWiki to mitigate JSONP injection and clickjacking risks, in accordance with Debian Security Advisory DSA-3011-1.
It was discovered that MediaWiki, a website engine for collaborative work, is vulnerable to JSONP injection in Flash (CVE-2014-5241) and clickjacking between OutputPage and ParserO...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:1.19.18+dfsg-0+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: mediawiki
CVE ID: CVE-2014-5241 CVE-2014-5243

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