Fedora 22: mediawiki Security Update
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 * (T102562) Fix InstantCommons parameters to handle the new HTTPS-only policy of Wikimedia Commons. * (T100767) Setting a configuration setting for skin or extension to false in LocalSettings.php was not working. * (T100635) API action=opensearch json output no longer breaks when $wgDebugToolbar is enabled. * (T102522) Using an extension.json or skin.json file which has a "manifest_version" property for 1.26 compatability will no longer trigger warnings. * (T86156) Running updateSearchIndex.php will not throw an error as page_restrictions has been added to the locked table list. * Special:Version would throw notices if using SVN due to an incorrectly named variable. Add an additional check that an index is defined.
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 .