Debian DSA-3110-1 : mediawiki - security update

low Nessus Plugin ID 80229

Synopsis

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

Description

A flaw was discovered in mediawiki, a wiki engine: thumb.php outputs wikitext messages as raw HTML, potentially leading to cross-site scripting (XSS).

Solution

Upgrade the mediawiki packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.19.20+dfsg-0+deb7u3; this version additionally fixes a regression introduced in the previous release, DSA-3100-1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.2.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773654

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3110

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 80229

File Name: debian_DSA-3110.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/26/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/23/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9475

DSA: 3110