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Fedora 33: 2021-56d8173b5e Critical MediaWiki DoS and XSS Issues

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Calendar Grey October 12, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
MediaWiki upgrade notice: critical security issues resolved in Fedora 33 to improve system reliability and speed. Update now.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.35#MediaWiki_1.35.4

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.

* Mon Oct 4 2021 Michael Cronenworth - 1.35.4-1

- Update to 1.35.4

[ 1 ] Bug #1980309 - CVE-2021-35197 mediawiki: blocked users are able to purge pages impacting Integrity [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1980309

[ 2 ] Bug #1995203 - CVE-2021-31556 mediawiki: MWOAuthConsumerSubmitControl.php does not ensure that the length of an RSA key will fit in a MySQL blob [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1995203

[ 3 ] Bug #2010198 - CVE-2021-41798 mediawiki: Cross-site scripting (XSS) in Special:Search [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2010198

[ 4 ] Bug #2010199 - CVE-2021-41800 mediawiki: improper access restrictions in PoolCounter protection of Special:Contributions. [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2010199

[ 5 ] Bug #2010201 - CVE-2021-41799 mediawiki: ApiQueryBacklinks can cause a full table scan and as a result DoS [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2010201

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-56d8173b5e' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 1.35.4
Release: 1.fc33
Summary: A wiki engine

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