MGASA-2022-0145 - Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 18 Apr 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0145.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 8
CVE: CVE-2022-28201,
     CVE-2022-28202,
     CVE-2022-28203,
     CVE-2022-28204

Title::newMainPage() goes into an infinite recursion loop if it points to a
local interwiki (CVE-2022-28201).

Messages widthheight/widthheightpage/nbytes not escaped when used in galleries
or Special:RevisionDelete (CVE-2022-28202).

Requesting Special:NewFiles on a wiki with many file uploads with actor as a
condition can result in a DoS (CVE-2022-28203).

Special:WhatLinksHere can result in a DoS when a page is used on a extremely
large number of other pages (CVE-2022-28204).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30231
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/YJNXKPV5Z56NSUQ4G3SXPDUIZG5EQ7UR/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-28201
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-28202
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-28203
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-28204

SRPMS:
- 8/core/mediawiki-1.35.6-1.mga8

Mageia 2022-0145: mediawiki security update

Title::newMainPage() goes into an infinite recursion loop if it points to a local interwiki (CVE-2022-28201)

Summary

Title::newMainPage() goes into an infinite recursion loop if it points to a local interwiki (CVE-2022-28201).
Messages widthheight/widthheightpage/nbytes not escaped when used in galleries or Special:RevisionDelete (CVE-2022-28202).
Requesting Special:NewFiles on a wiki with many file uploads with actor as a condition can result in a DoS (CVE-2022-28203).
Special:WhatLinksHere can result in a DoS when a page is used on a extremely large number of other pages (CVE-2022-28204).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30231

- https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/YJNXKPV5Z56NSUQ4G3SXPDUIZG5EQ7UR/

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-28201

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-28202

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-28203

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-28204

Resolution

MGASA-2022-0145 - Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 8/core/mediawiki-1.35.6-1.mga8

Severity
Publication date: 18 Apr 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0145.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-28201, CVE-2022-28202, CVE-2022-28203, CVE-2022-28204

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