Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.131161
Category:	Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
Title:	Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2015-0486)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'mediawiki' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2015-0486 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'mediawiki' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2015-0486 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities: In MediaWiki before 1.23.12, an XSS vector exists when MediaWiki is configured with a non-standard configuration, from wikitext when $wgArticlePath='$1' (CVE-2015-8622). In MediaWiki before 1.23.12, tokens were being compared as strings, which could allow a timing attack (CVE-2015-8623, CVE-2015-8624). In MediaWiki before 1.23.12, parameters passed to the curl library were not sanitized, which could cause curl to upload files from the webserver to an attacker when POST variable starts with '@' (CVE-2015-8625). In MediaWiki before 1.23.12, the password reset token could be shorter than the minimum required password length (CVE-2015-8626). In MediaWiki before 1.23.12, blocking IP addresses with zero-padded octets resulted in a failure to block the IP address (CVE-2015-8627). In MediaWiki before 1.23.12, a combination of Special:MyPage redirects and pagecounts allows an external site to know the wikipedia login of an user (CVE-2015-8628). Affected Software/OS: 'mediawiki' package(s) on Mageia 5. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 6.8 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8622 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-December/000186.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/8 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/7 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8623 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8624 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8625 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8626 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8627 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8628
Copyright	Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AG

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