MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 202107-40

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in MediaWiki, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service condition.

Affected packages

www-apps/mediawiki on all architectures
Affected versions < 1.36.1
Unaffected versions >= 1.36.1

Background

MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software used by large projects such as Wikipedia.

Description

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

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All MediaWiki users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/mediawiki-1.36.1"
 

References

Release date
July 17, 2021

Latest revision
July 17, 2021: 1

Severity
low

Exploitable
remote

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