MGASA-2023-0241 - Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 26 Jul 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0241.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 8
CVE: CVE-2023-29197,
     CVE-2023-36674,
     CVE-2023-36675

guzzlehttp/psr7 is a PSR-7 HTTP message library implementation in PHP.
Affected versions are subject to improper header parsing. An attacker
could sneak in a newline (\n) into both the header names and values.
While the specification states that \r\n\r\n is used to terminate the
header list, many servers in the wild will also accept \n\n
(CVE-2023-29197).

Manualthumb bypasses badFile lookup (CVE-2023-36674).

XSS in BlockLogFormatter due to unsafe message use (CVE-2023-36675).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32083
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/HVT3U3XYY35PSCIQPHMY4VQNF3Q6MHUO/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-29197
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-36674
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-36675

SRPMS:
- 8/core/mediawiki-1.35.11-1.mga8

Mageia 2023-0241: mediawiki security update

guzzlehttp/psr7 is a PSR-7 HTTP message library implementation in PHP

Summary

guzzlehttp/psr7 is a PSR-7 HTTP message library implementation in PHP. Affected versions are subject to improper header parsing. An attacker could sneak in a newline (\n) into both the header names and values. While the specification states that \r\n\r\n is used to terminate the header list, many servers in the wild will also accept \n\n (CVE-2023-29197).
Manualthumb bypasses badFile lookup (CVE-2023-36674).
XSS in BlockLogFormatter due to unsafe message use (CVE-2023-36675).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32083

- https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/HVT3U3XYY35PSCIQPHMY4VQNF3Q6MHUO/

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-29197

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-36674

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-36675

Resolution

MGASA-2023-0241 - Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 8/core/mediawiki-1.35.11-1.mga8

Severity
Publication date: 26 Jul 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0241.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-29197, CVE-2023-36674, CVE-2023-36675

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