Description: | Description: The remote host is missing an update to mediawiki announced via advisory FEDORA-2011-5848.
Update Information:
This update brings mediawiki to version 1.16.4, which is the latest stable release at the moment, but currently also the only supported and recommended release by the mediawiki developer community.
Further changes: * some simple wiki management functionality was added: * mw-createinstance creates a wiki instance under , which is autoupgraded upon package updates. * any wiki path entered in /etc/mediawiki/instances will be autoupgraded upon package updates. * /var/www/wiki is entered into this list automatically, but you can remove it if you don't want this instance to be autoupgraded. * opensearch and suggestions are enabled by default * several bug fixes (see changelog).
References:
[ 1 ] Bug #697434 - texvc binary missing and deal link in package mediawiki-math-1.16.2-56.fc14.x86_64 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697434 [ 2 ] Bug #614065 - mediawiki opensearch_desc.php has bad path https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=614065 [ 3 ] Bug #644325 - /etc/httpd/conf.d/mediawiki.conf has execute permission https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644325 [ 4 ] Bug #682281 - Mediawiki uses the reserved word Namespace introduced in latest release of PHP https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682281 [ 5 ] Bug #662402 - Cannot enable math display for mediawiki https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662402 [ 6 ] Bug #674456 - CVE-2011-0047 mediawiki: multiple vulnerabilities corrected in mediawiki 1.16.2 [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674456 [ 7 ] Bug #667201 - CVE-2011-0003 mediawiki: clickjacking vulnerability [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667201 [ 8 ] Bug #620226 - CVE-2010-2787 CVE-2010-2788 mediawiki various flaws [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620226 [ 9 ] Bug #696361 - CVE-2011-1578 CVE-2011-1579 CVE-2011-1580 mediawiki: multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 1.16.3 [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696361
Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.
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/.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2011-5848
Risk factor : High
CVSS Score: 5.8
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