MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201310-21

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in MediaWiki, the worst of which could lead to Denial of Service.

Affected packages

Background

The MediaWiki wiki web application as used on wikipedia.org.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MediaWiki. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code, perform man-in-the-middle attacks, obtain sensitive information or perform cross-site scripting attacks.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/mediawiki-1.21.2"
 

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/mediawiki-1.20.7"
 

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/mediawiki-1.19.8"
 

References

• CVE-2013-1816
• CVE-2013-1817
• CVE-2013-1818
• CVE-2013-1951
• CVE-2013-2031
• CVE-2013-2032
• CVE-2013-2114
• CVE-2013-4301
• CVE-2013-4302
• CVE-2013-4303
• CVE-2013-4304
• CVE-2013-4305
• CVE-2013-4306
• CVE-2013-4307
• CVE-2013-4308

Release date
October 28, 2013

Latest revision
October 28, 2013: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

• 460352
• 466124
• 468110
• 471140
• 483594