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Fedora 38: 2023-1fcaba0998 Moderate: MediaWiki Cross Site Scripting Issue

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Calendar Grey September 2, 2023
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The latest MediaWiki release in Fedora 38 has enhanced security features, notably fixing vulnerabilities related to cross-site scripting. Ensure you install and protect your setup today!
- announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/H46H5ZYZG2PYUQ5STK7NWKF7GXYW7H6B/

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.

Update Information:

- announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/H46H5ZYZG2PYUQ5STK7NWKF7GXYW7H6B/

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue software update Fedora cross site scripting MediaWiki

Change Log

* Wed Aug 23 2023 Michael Cronenworth - 1.39.4-1 - Update to 1.39.4 * Thu Jul 20 2023 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.39.3-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2217429 - CVE-2023-36675 mediawiki: cross site scripting [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2217429 [ 2 ] Bug #2233911 - CVE-2023-36674 mediawiki: Manualthumb bypasses badFile lookup [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233911

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-1fcaba0998' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: mediawiki
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 1.39.4
Release: 1.fc38
URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Summary: A wiki engine

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue software update Fedora cross site scripting MediaWiki

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