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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-083

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-083
Posted May 8, 2014
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-083 - Login CSRF issue in MediaWiki before 1.22.5 in Special:ChangePassword, whereby a user can be logged into an attackers account without being aware of it, allowing the attacker to track the user's activity. XSS vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.22.6, where if the default sort key is set to a string containing a script, the script will be executed when the page is viewed using the info action. MediaWiki has been updated to version 1.22.6, fixing this and other issues.

tags | advisory
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2014-2665
SHA-256 | 5a6c7bc4a4b122fb358c0ade3b8277baa7f5e4453ec69320728a2f11b9ceabbf

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-083

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:083
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : mediawiki
Date : May 8, 2014
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities:

Login CSRF issue in MediaWiki before 1.22.5 in Special:ChangePassword,
whereby a user can be logged into an attackers account without being
aware of it, allowing the attacker to track the user's activity
(CVE-2014-2665).

XSS vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.22.6, where if the default
sort key is set to a string containing a script, the script will be
executed when the page is viewed using the info action.

MediaWiki has been updated to version 1.22.6, fixing this and other
issues.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2665
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0157.html
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0197.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
292fb98c951c1b2111ad9fe0bb26a6d2 mbs1/x86_64/mediawiki-1.22.6-1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
7b12b37abd00c4f4e9cf3987d1305ffb mbs1/x86_64/mediawiki-mysql-1.22.6-1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
2d7eb5e3fba48833afa4ab7c6d7c7f52 mbs1/x86_64/mediawiki-pgsql-1.22.6-1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
854f21c25837fbabf6e44353606e5ba3 mbs1/x86_64/mediawiki-sqlite-1.22.6-1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
16c61971b495a75a2fbb85c3a3685d76 mbs1/SRPMS/mediawiki-1.22.6-1.mbs1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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