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Gentoo: GLSA-201502-04 High: MediaWiki Remote Code Execution Risks

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Calendar Grey February 7, 2015
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
MediaWiki contains serious weaknesses that can be exploited for remote code execution; it's important to apply security patches on Gentoo installations.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in MediaWiki, the worst of which may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Summary

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity security issue gentoo remote code execution multiple vulnerabilities mediawiki

Resolution

All MediaWiki 1.23 users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/mediawiki-1.23.8"
All MediaWiki 1.22 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/mediawiki-1.22.15"
All MediaWiki 1.19 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/mediawiki-1.19.23"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-6451 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6451 [ 2 ] CVE-2013-6452 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6452 [ 3 ] CVE-2013-6453 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6453 [ 4 ] CVE-2013-6454 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6454 [ 5 ] CVE-2013-6472 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6472 [ 6 ] CVE-2014-1610 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-1610 [ 7 ] CVE-2014-2242 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2242 [ 8 ] CVE-2014-2243 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2243 [ 9 ] CVE-2014-2244 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2244 [ 10 ] CVE-2014-2665 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2665 [ 11 ] CVE-2014-2853 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2853 [ 12 ] CVE-2014-5241 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-5241 [ 13 ] CVE-2014-5242 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/201502-04
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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 vulnerabilities
Date: February 07, 2015
Bugs: #498064, #499632, #503012, #506018, #515138, #518608,
ID: 201502-04

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Topics Covered

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Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in MediaWiki, the worst of which may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Background

MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software used by large projects such as Wikipedia.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-apps/mediawiki < 1.23.8 >= 1.23.8 *>= 1.22.15 *>= 1.19.23

Impact

===== A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, create a Denial of Service condition, obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, and inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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