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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.1.1.2010.2041
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2041-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mediawiki' package(s) announced via the DSA-2041-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mediawiki' package(s) announced via the DSA-2041-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that mediawiki, a website engine for collaborative work, is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Request Forgery login attack, which could be used to conduct phishing or similar attacks to users via affected mediawiki installations.

Note that the fix used breaks the login API and may require clients using it to be updated.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.12.0-2lenny5.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.15.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'mediawiki' package(s) on Debian 5.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-1150
ADV-2010-1055
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1055
DSA-2041
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2041
[mediawiki-announce] 20100407 MediaWiki security update: 1.15.3 and 1.16.0beta2
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-April/000090.html
[oss-security] 20100406 CVE Request: MediaWiki 1.15.3 -- Login CSRF
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/07/1
[oss-security] 20100407 Re: CVE Request: MediaWiki 1.15.3 -- Login CSRF
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/08/4
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.3.patch.gz
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.0beta2.patch.gz
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_15_3/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_16_0beta2/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580418
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23076
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