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Fedora 22: 2015-24fe8b66c9 Moderate: MediaWiki Flaw Fix

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Identifying various vulnerabilities in MediaWiki for Fedora 22. Urgent software upgrade suggested to bolster security.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.25#MediaWiki_1.25.3

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:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.25#MediaWiki_1.25.3

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update Fedora mediawiki

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1273353 - CVE-2015-8001 CVE-2015-8002 CVE-2015-8003 CVE-2015-8004 CVE-2015-8005 CVE-2015-8006 CVE-2015-8007 CVE-2015-8008 CVE-2015-8009 mediawiki: multiple flaws fixed in 1.25.3, 1.24.4, and 1.23.11 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273353

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 22
Version: 1.25.3
Release: 1.fc22
URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Summary: A wiki engine

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update Fedora mediawiki

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