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Debian: DSA-3100-1 Critical: Mediawiki Cross-Domain Code Injection

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Calendar Grey December 13, 2014
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Debian Security Notice DSA-3101-1 informs about a vulnerability in mediawiki that could enable code execution through the API. An update is advised.
A flaw was discovered in mediawiki, a wiki engine: cross-domain-policy mangling allows an article editor to inject code into API consumers that deserialize PHP representations of t...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.19.20+dfsg-0+deb7u2.

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-2014-9277

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