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Mageia 2019-0301: mediawiki security update

Date 23 Oct 2019

Category Mageia Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability: In MediaWiki through 1.33.0, Special:Redirect allows information disclosure of suppressed usernames via a User ID Lookup (CVE-2019-16738).

MGASA-2019-0301 - Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 23 Oct 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0301.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2019-16738

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability:

In MediaWiki through 1.33.0, Special:Redirect allows information disclosure
of suppressed usernames via a User ID Lookup (CVE-2019-16738).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25566
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2019-October/000236.html
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2019-October/000238.html
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-16738

SRPMS:
- 7/core/mediawiki-1.31.5-1.mga7