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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-5569
2015-04-05 11:02:50
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Name        : mediawiki
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.23.9
Release     : 1.fc20
URL         : https://www.mediawiki.org/
Summary     : A wiki engine
Description :
MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia
Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent
range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple
servers
This package supports wiki farms. Read the instructions for creating wiki
instances under /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/README.RPM.
Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration.

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Update Information:

Changes since 1.23.8

* (bug T85848, bug T71210) SECURITY: Don't parse XMP blocks that contain XML entities, to prevent various DoS attacks.
* (bug T85848) SECURITY: Don't allow directly calling Xml::isWellFormed, to reduce likelihood of DoS.
* (bug T88310) SECURITY: Always expand xml entities when checking SVG's.
* (bug T73394) SECURITY: Escape > in Html::expandAttributes to prevent XSS.
* (bug T85855) SECURITY: Don't execute another user's CSS or JS on preview.
* (bug T85349, bug T85850, bug T86711) SECURITY: Multiple issues fixed in SVG filtering to prevent XSS and protect viewer's privacy.
* (bug T70087) Fix Special:ActiveUsers page for installations using PostgreSQL.

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ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr  1 2015 Michael Cronenworth  - 1.23.9-1
- Update to 1.23.9
- (bug T85848, bug T71210) SECURITY: Don't parse XMP blocks that contain XML entities, to prevent various DoS attacks.
- (bug T85848) SECURITY: Don't allow directly calling Xml::isWellFormed, to reduce likelihood of DoS.
- (bug T88310) SECURITY: Always expand xml entities when checking SVG's.
- (bug T73394) SECURITY: Escape > in Html::expandAttributes to prevent XSS.
- (bug T85855) SECURITY: Don't execute another user's CSS or JS on preview.
- (bug T85349, bug T85850, bug T86711) SECURITY: Multiple issues fixed in SVG filtering to prevent XSS and protect viewer's privacy.
- (bug T70087) Fix Special:ActiveUsers page for installations using PostgreSQL.
* Thu Dec 18 2014 Michael Cronenworth  - 1.23.8-1
- Update to 1.23.8
- (bug T76686) [SECURITY] thumb.php outputs wikitext message as raw HTML, which could lead to xss. Permission to edit MediaWiki namespace is required to exploit this.
- (bug T77028) [SECURITY] Malicious site can bypass CORS restrictions in $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains in API calls if it only included an allowed domain as part of its name.
- (bug T74222) The original patch for T74222 was reverted as unnecessary.
* Fri Nov 28 2014 Michael Cronenworth  - 1.23.7-1
- Update to 1.23.7
- Release notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.23#MediaWiki_1.23.7
* Mon Nov  3 2014 Michael Cronenworth  - 1.23.6-1
- Update to 1.23.6
- (bug 67440) Allow classes to be registered properly from installer
- (bug 72274) Job queue not running (HTTP 411) due to missing Content-Length: header
* Thu Oct  2 2014 Michael Cronenworth  - 1.23.5-1
- Update to 1.23.5
- CVE-2014-7295 (bug 70672) SECURITY: OutputPage: Remove separation of css and js module
  allowance.
* Fri Sep 26 2014 Michael Cronenworth  - 1.23.4-1
- Update to 1.23.4
- (bug 69008) SECURITY: Enhance CSS filtering in SVG files. Filter