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Fedora 35: FEDORA-2021-3dd1b66cbf moderate: XSS Security Risk

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Calendar Grey October 29, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Security alert for Fedora 35 regarding the recent MediaWiki upgrade. This update mitigates several vulnerabilities that could compromise the system's integrity and security.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.36#MediaWiki_1.36.2

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 - 1.36.2-1

- Update to 1.36.2

[ 1 ] Bug #1975446 - mediawiki-1.36.2 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975446

[ 2 ] 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

[ 3 ] 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

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

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

[ 5 ] 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

[ 6 ] 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-2021-3dd1b66cbf' at the command

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

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 35
Version: 1.36.2
Release: 1.fc35
Summary: A wiki engine

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