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Fedora 36: 2022-09-09 MediaWiki Security Advisory - Critical Fixes

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Calendar Grey September 9, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
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MediaWiki 1.37.4 This is a maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.37 branch

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.

MediaWiki 1.37.4 This is a maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.37 branch.

Changes since MediaWiki 1.37.3 Localisation updates. (T311568)

UploadBase::setTempFile() handle $tempPath being passed as null. (T311559)

SpecialListFiles: user parameter isn't always present. (T311561)

ImageListPager: Don't call htmlspecialchars() on null. (T311920)

SpecialBlockList: Prevent passing null to trim(). (T311921)

SpecialUserrights: Don't pass null to str_replace. (T311570)

SpecialWithoutInterwiki: Don't pass null through to Title::capitalize().

(T311574, T311576) SpecialLinkSearch: Don't pass null through to the parser.

(T312059) Update guzzlehttp/guzzle to 7.4.5 in vendor. (T296435, T297669)

cache: Add four fields to LinkCache::getSelectFields. MediaWiki 1.37.3 This is

a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.37 branch. Changes since

MediaWiki 1.37.2 Localisation updates. (T289879) Type hints for

ArrayAccess and JsonSerializable. (T304783) TemplateParser: avoid warnings

when called by NoLocalSettings. Rebuilt vendor with composer 2.3.3. Fix

old_name in UserLogoutComplete hook. (T289879) Address some deprecations for

PHP 8.1. (T193565) UserGroupManager: Fix dbDomain in addUserToGroup()

deferred update. (T309114) LocalFile::prerenderThumbnails: Limit the number

of thumbnail jobs triggered. (T307982) Updated wikimedia/parsoid from

v0.14.0 to v0.14.1. (T308471) SECURITY: Escape welcomeuser message passed to

showSuccessPage(). (T308473) SECURITY: Escape contributions-title msg for

use within page title. (T311272) Call parent constructor of AddSite

maintenance script first. MediaWiki: Don't eagerly initialize action name.

Updated wikimedia/shellbox from v2.0.0 to v2.1.1. (T311384, CVE-2022-27776)

Updated guzzlehttp/guzzle from 7.2.0 to 7.4.5. (T289926) Avoid passing null

to trim() in SkinTemplate. (T311473) rollbackEdits: Pass user identity to

RollbackPage. (T307282) Avoid passing null to strcasecmp(), for PHP 8.1.

(T311551) ShellboxClientFactory::getUrl(): Check if $this->key is null.

(T311552) ChangesListSpecialPage: Don't pass null to FormatJson::decode().

(T311569) FileBackend::isStoragePath() Handle being passed null. (T311544)

Pass int to ApiUsageException::newWithMessage()'s $httpCode param. (T311678)

SpecialEditWatchlist: Prevent passing null to strtolower(). (T281741)

ChangeTags: Fix adding CSS classes for hidden tags. (T296642) changetags:

Fix management of a '0' tag. (T311554) ChangeTags: Return early in

formatSummaryRow() if $tags === null. (T303033) Handle null in

ChangeTags::modifyDisplayQuery. Updated wikimedia/common-passwords from

0.3.0 to 0.4.0.

* Thu Sep 1 2022 Michael Cronenworth - 1.37.4-1

- Update to 1.37.4

[ 1 ] Bug #2101639 - MediaWiki 1.37.2 pulls in version of dependency (Parsoid 0.14.0) broken with PHP 8.1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2101639

[ 2 ] Bug #2102955 - mediawiki-1.38.2 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2102955

[ 3 ] Bug #2112771 - CVE-2022-34911 mediawiki: Cross-site Scripting [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2112771

[ 4 ] Bug #2112773 - CVE-2022-34912 mediawiki: Username not escaped in the contributions-title message [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2112773

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-f83aec6d57' 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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Product: Fedora 36
Version: 1.37.4
Release: 1.fc36
Summary: A wiki engine

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