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Gentoo: GLSA-201206-09 High: MediaWiki Multiple Issues Threat

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2012
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in MediaWiki, the worst of which leading to remote execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in mediawiki. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo web application remote execution multiple issues mediawiki

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?cvena...

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Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201206-09
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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.

Severity: High
Title: MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilites
Date: June 21, 2012
Bugs: #366685, #409513
ID: 201206-09

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo web application remote execution multiple issues mediawiki

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.

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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.

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