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Fedora 17 : mediawiki-1.19.6-1.fc17 (2013-7701)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66502

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Changes since 1.19.5

 - (bug 47304) SECURITY: Check SVG xml encoding against whitelist

 - (bug 46590) Added AbortChangePassword hook to allow extensions to abort password changes from Special:ChangePassword

 - Localisation updates from http://translatewiki.net.

 - mwdocgen.php: Implement --version option.

 - Remove svnstat stuff used in Doxygen generation

 - E_USER_DEPRECATED undefined prior to php 5.3

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mediawiki package.

See Also

https://translatewiki.net/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958303

http://www.nessus.org/u?0e5decb1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66502

File Name: fedora_2013-7701.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2031, CVE-2013-2032

BID: 59594, 59595

FEDORA: 2013-7701