Detections
Analytics

Fedora 19 : mediawiki-1.23.2-1.fc19 (2014-9548)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 77398

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is a major update from the 1.21 branch to the 1.23 long term support branch.

 - (bug 68187) SECURITY: Prepend jsonp callback with comment. - CVE-2014-5241

 - (bug 66608) SECURITY: Fix for XSS issue in bug 66608:
 Generate the URL used for loading a new page in JavaScript,instead of relying on the URL in the link that has been clicked. - CVE-2014-5242

 - (bug 65778) SECURITY: Copy prevent-clickjacking between OutputPage and ParserOutput. - CVE-2014-5243

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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1125111

http://www.nessus.org/u?8c3be14b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 77398

File Name: fedora_2014-9548.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/27/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/19/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-5241, CVE-2014-5242, CVE-2014-5243

BID: 69135, 69136, 69137

FEDORA: 2014-9548