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Fedora 21 MediaWiki: Critical Advisory on Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey September 3, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent MediaWiki revision includes essential enhancements to safeguard user information and bolster error management, critical for Fedora 21.
* (T94116) SECURITY: Compare API watchlist token in constant time * (T97391) SECURITY: Escape error message strings in thumb.php * (T106893) SECURITY: Don't leak autoblocked IP add...

Summary

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.

Update Information:

* (T94116) SECURITY: Compare API watchlist token in constant time * (T97391) SECURITY: Escape error message strings in thumb.php * (T106893) SECURITY: Don't leak autoblocked IP addresses on Special:DeletedContributions * Update jQuery from v1.11.2 to v1.11.3. * (T102562) Fix InstantCommons parameters to handle the new HTTPS-only policy of Wikimedia Commons.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical Fedora mediawiki error handling

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1253280 - CVE-2013-7444 CVE-2015-6737 CVE-2015-6736 CVE-2015-6727 CVE-2015-6733 CVE-2015-6732 CVE-2015-6731 CVE-2015-6730 CVE-2015-6728 CVE-2015-6729 CVE-2015-6735 CVE-2015-6734 mediawiki: multiple security fixes in 1.25.2, 1.24.3, 1.23.10 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253280

Update Instructions

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

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Name: mediawiki
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 1.24.3
Release: 1.fc21
URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Summary: A wiki engine

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical Fedora mediawiki error handling

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