Gentoo: GLSA-201206-09: MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilites
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in mediawiki. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
Resolution
All MediaWiki users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/mediawiki-1.18.2"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2010-2787 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2787 [ 2 ] CVE-2010-2788 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2788 [ 3 ] CVE-2010-2789 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2789 [ 4 ] CVE-2011-0003 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0003 [ 5 ] CVE-2011-0047 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0047 [ 6 ] CVE-2011-0537 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0537 [ 7 ] CVE-2011-1579 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1579 [ 8 ] CVE-2011-1580 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1580 [ 9 ] CVE-2011-1766 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1766 [ 10 ] CVE-2011-1766 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1766 [ 11 ] CVE-2012-1578 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-1578 [ 12 ] CVE-2012-1579 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-1579 [ 13 ] CVE-2012-1580 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-1580 [ 14 ] CVE-2012-1581 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-1581 [ 15 ] CVE-2012-1582 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-1582
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201206-09
Concerns
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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Synopsis
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in MediaWiki, the worst of which leading to remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background
The MediaWiki wiki web application as used on wikipedia.org.
Affected Packages
------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-apps/mediawiki < 1.18.2 >= 1.18.2
Impact
===== MediaWiki allows remote attackers to bypass authentication, to perform imports from any wgImportSources wiki via a crafted POST request, to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain sensitive information, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, to conduct clickjacking attacks, to execute arbitrary PHP code, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, to bypass intended access restrictions and to obtain sensitive information.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.