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Fedora 40: 2024-2c564b942d Critical MediaWiki XSS and DoS Threats

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Calendar Grey May 11, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important MediaWiki security patch released for Fedora 40 addresses vulnerabilities including XSS and DoS. Update today!
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.41

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:


Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service fedora cross-site scripting critical update mediawiki

Change Log

* Fri May 3 2024 Michael Cronenworth - 1.41.1-1 - Update to 1.41.1

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2240808 - CVE-2023-3550 mediawiki: stored XSS leads to privilege escalation [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240808 [ 2 ] Bug #2241397 - mediawiki-1.41.1 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241397 [ 3 ] Bug #2247804 - CVE-2023-45360 mediawiki: XSS in youhavenewmessagesmanyusers and youhavenewmessages i18n messages [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247804 [ 4 ] Bug #2247806 - CVE-2023-45362 mediawiki: diff-multi-sameuser ("X intermediate revisions by the same user not shown") ignores username suppression [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247806 [ 5 ] Bug #2255583 - CVE-2023-51704 mediawiki: group-.*-member messages are not properly escaped on Special:log/rights [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255583 [ 6 ] Bug #2261492 - php-oojs-oojs-ui: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f40 https://bugzilla.re...

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Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-2c564b942d' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: mediawiki
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.41.1
Release: 1.fc40
URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/
Summary: A wiki engine

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service fedora cross-site scripting critical update mediawiki

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