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Fedora 7 Update: mediawiki-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7 Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Fedora This update fixes the following vulnerability: "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the AJAX features in index.php in MediaWiki 1.6.x through 1.9.2, when $wgUseAjax is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a UTF-7 encoded value of the rs parameter, which is processed by Internet Explorer."
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-1442
2007-08-06 10:56:19.560348
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Name        : mediawiki
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 1.9.3
Release     : 34.0.2.fc7
Summary     : A wiki engine
Description :
MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia
Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent
range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple
servers

This package supports wiki farms. Copy /var/www/wiki over to the
desired wiki location and configure it through the web
interface. Remember to remove the config dir after completing the
configuration.

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Update Information:

This update fixes the following vulnerability:

 "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the AJAX features in 
  index.php in MediaWiki 1.6.x through 1.9.2, when $wgUseAjax is
  enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script
  or HTML via a UTF-7 encoded value of the rs parameter, which is
  processed by Internet Explorer."

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ChangeLog:

* Mon Aug  6 2007 Axel Thimm  - 1.9.3-34.0.1
- Bump release to please koji/CVS.
* Thu Feb 22 2007 Axel Thimm  - 1.9.3-34
- Update to 1.9.4.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #250819
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250819
  [ 2 ] CVE-2007-1054
        http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1054
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Updated packages:

ac48ef9e1b824ccd5c7def86e3bb2610c84ae5db mediawiki-debuginfo-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7.i386.rpm
77467b507c0c1a0df8b0101bb60a30e149614df5 mediawiki-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7.i386.rpm
b475374a91e5bae04fdd01b6f8acbb878427a24a mediawiki-debuginfo-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7.x86_64.rpm
7526851cedc44a419f3584bc1cebd5ed8cc54c61 mediawiki-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7.x86_64.rpm
5493f768b83d0bb228d57d08034839e6432357ab mediawiki-debuginfo-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7.ppc.rpm
2a2c1deafadd9544d84cba39411b88969e3bb7b3 mediawiki-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7.ppc.rpm
93a61addf23f07ad4aa6f6951de337f1419fe9f0 mediawiki-1.9.3-34.0.2.fc7.src.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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