Fedora 23: mediawiki Security Update 2015-13920
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 .