Fedora 37: 2023-567baef490 Critical: MediaWiki Auto-Block Threat

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.

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/message/6UQBHI5FWLATD7QO7DI4YS54U7XSSLAN/

* Sat Apr 1 2023 Michael Cronenworth - 1.38.6-1

- Update to 1.38.6

[ 1 ] Bug #2183628 - CVE-2023-29141 mediawiki: Auto-block can occur for an untrusted X-Forwarded-For header [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2183628

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-567baef490' 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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