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Fedora 37: FEDORA-2022-bca2c95559 High Severity: MediaWiki Update

fedora
Calendar Grey September 12, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update MediaWiki to version 1.38.2 on Fedora 37 to improve security and optimize performance in light of the latest maintenance update.
MediaWiki 1.38.2 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.38 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 1.38.2 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki

1.38 branch. Changes since MediaWiki 1.38.1 Localisation updates.

(T309426) Repair language selector for SVGs. (T310013) Fix default value for

$wgShowEXIF and $wgUsePathInfo. (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. (T311384, CVE-2022-27776) Updated guzzlehttp/guzzle

from 7.4.1 to 7.4.5. (T289926) Avoid passing null to trim() in SkinTemplate.

(T289879) Address deprecations for PHP 8.1. (T311473) rollbackEdits: Pass

user identity to RollbackPage. Upgrade wikimedia/remex-html from 3.0.1 to

3.0.2. (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(). (T311554) ChangeTags: Return early in formatSummaryRow() if

$tags === null. Upgrade wikimedia/common-passwords from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0.

* Thu Sep 1 2022 Michael Cronenworth - 1.38.2-1

- Update to 1.38.2

[ 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-bca2c95559' 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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Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 37
Version: 1.38.2
Release: 1.fc37
Summary: A wiki engine

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