MediaWiki: Multiple Vulnerabilities — GLSA 202305-24

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in MediaWiki, the worst of which could result in denial of service.

Affected packages

www-apps/mediawiki on all architectures
Affected versions < 1.38.5
Unaffected versions >= 1.38.5

Background

MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software, used by big projects like 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-1.38.5"
 

References

Release date
May 21, 2023

Latest revision
May 21, 2023: 1

Severity
low

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries