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Fedora 23 MediaWiki Security Advisory - Critical Flaws Fixed

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential patch for MediaWiki on Fedora 23 tackles several vulnerabilities, improving overall system security and operational efficiency.
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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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 23
Version: 1.25.3
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Summary: A wiki engine

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update Fedora critical fix multiple flaws mediawiki

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