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openSUSE Security Update : mediawiki (mediawiki-506)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40064

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Missing checks allowed remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) or cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks against MediaWiki (CVE-2008-5250, CVE-2008-5252).

Solution

Update the affected mediawiki package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459058

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40064

File Name: suse_11_0_mediawiki-090206.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mediawiki

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5250, CVE-2008-5252

CWE: 352, 79