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Debian DSA-3100-1 : mediawiki - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 79887

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

A flaw was discovered in mediawiki, a wiki engine: cross-domain-policy mangling allows an article editor to inject code into API consumers that deserialize PHP representations of the page from the API.

Solution

Upgrade the mediawiki packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.19.20+dfsg-0+deb7u2.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=772764

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/mediawiki

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3100

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79887

File Name: debian_DSA-3100.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/15/2014

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mediawiki

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9277

BID: 71473

DSA: 3100