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Debian Wheezy: DSA-3110-1 Moderate XSS Threat in Mediawiki Update

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Calendar Grey December 23, 2014
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Debian Security Bulletin DSA-3110-2 concerns a mediawiki vulnerability impacting thumb.php; update strongly advised.
A flaw was discovered in mediawiki, a wiki engine: thumb.php outputs wikitext messages as raw HTML, potentially leading to cross-site scripting (XSS)
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security advisory moderate security issue update xss mediawiki wheezy

Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.19.20+dfsg-0+deb7u3; this version additionally fixes a
regression introduced in the previous release, DSA-3100-1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and unstable
distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version
1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.2.

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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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue update xss mediawiki wheezy

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