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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.59801
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 7 FEDORA-2007-2189 (mediawiki)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to mediawiki
announced via advisory FEDORA-2007-2189.

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.

Update Information:

Update to 1.9.4 to fix cross site scripting vulnerability in API pretty-printing mode.

More info: http://secunia.com/advisories/26772/
ChangeLog:

* Wed Sep 12 2007 Ville Skyttä - 1.9.4-35
- Update to 1.9.4 (security
http://secunia.com/advisories/26772/, #287881)
* 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 1.9.3.
References:

[ 1 ] Bug #287881 - CVE-2007-4828 mediawiki cross-site scripting vulnerability
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=287881
[ 2 ] CVE-2007-4828
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4828
Updated packages:

c1813c9ceac403e56f6f7c1a7107627d1119edab mediawiki-debuginfo-1.9.4-35.fc7.i386.rpm
36f09da786ba48f2bae631f12eebd92c57af9798 mediawiki-1.9.4-35.fc7.i386.rpm
6b52f49d8b92e97a897e59d4be023ddf219e1f95 mediawiki-debuginfo-1.9.4-35.fc7.x86_64.rpm
7fa49ebec6e029247a5a0594ca5214afee358254 mediawiki-1.9.4-35.fc7.x86_64.rpm
b5e590251fa3d0fae390b4291cd05ef6ba0228b7 mediawiki-debuginfo-1.9.4-35.fc7.ppc.rpm
a2af54bdb142509aa6718f8c402c0512e2f3a801 mediawiki-1.9.4-35.fc7.ppc.rpm
c542527bdc2a573182423e3dbce4fd8d7163faec mediawiki-1.9.4-35.fc7.src.rpm

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

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2007-2189

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
4.3

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-4828
BugTraq ID: 25632
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25632
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2007-218.shtml
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=287881
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2007-September/000067.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/26772
http://secunia.com/advisories/26870
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3130
XForce ISS Database: mediawiki-prettyprinting-xss(36558)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36558
CopyrightCopyright (c) 2007 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com

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