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Fedora 11: 2009-7794 Moderate: MoinMoin Fix for FCKeditor Issues

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This Ubuntu release tackles possible security risks in MediaWiki by eliminating weak elements from TinyMCE.
This update removes the filemanager directory from the embedded FCKeditor, it contains code with know security vulnerabilities, even though that code couldn't be invoked when Moin...

Summary

MoinMoin is an advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large

community of users. Said in a few words, it is about collaboration on easily

editable web pages.

Update Information:

This update removes the filemanager directory from the embedded FCKeditor, it contains code with know security vulnerabilities, even though that code couldn't be invoked when Moin was used with the default settings. Moin was probably not affected, but installing this update is still recommended as a security measure. CVE-2009-2265 is the related CVE identifier.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update Fedora removal FCKeditor MoinMoin

Change Log

* Sun Jul 12 2009 Ville-Pekka Vainio 1.8.4-2 - Remove the filemanager directory from the embedded FCKeditor, it contains code with know security vulnerabilities, even though that code couldn't be invoked when moin was used with the default settings. - Fixes rhbz #509924, related to CVE-2009-2265 * Sat Jun 13 2009 Ville-Pekka Vainio 1.8.4-1 - Update to 1.8.4, http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinRelease1.8 has a list of changes. - Includes a security fix for hierarchical ACL (not the default mode), http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes has the details. - Drop previous security patches, those are not needed anymore.

References


[ 1 ] Bug #509924 - CVE-2009-2265 moin: embedded fckeditor multiple directory traversal vulns https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509924

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update moin' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: moin
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 1.8.4
Release: 2.fc11
URL: http://moinmo.in/
Summary: MoinMoin is a WikiEngine to collaborate on easily editable web pages

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update Fedora removal FCKeditor MoinMoin

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