From: MediaWiki announcements mailing list I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.16.5. Two security issues were discovered. The first issue is yet another recurrence of the Internet Explorer 6 XSS vulnerability that caused the release of 1.16.4. It was pointed out that there are dangerous extensions with more than four characters, so the regular expressions we introduced had to be updated to match longer extensions. For more details, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28534 The second issue allows unauthenticated users to gain additional rights, on wikis where $wgBlockDisablesLogin is enabled. By default, it is disabled. The issue occurs when a malicious user sends cookies which contain the user name and user ID of a "victim" account. In certain circumstances, the rights of the victim are loaded and persist throughout the malicious request, allowing the malicious user to perform actions with the victim's rights. $wgBlockDisablesLogin is a feature which is sometimes used on private wikis to prevent users who have an account from logging in and viewing content on the wiki. For more details, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28639 Fix: Patch attached with submission follows:
Maintainer of www/mediawiki, Please note that PR ports/156914 has just been submitted. If it contains a patch for an upgrade, an enhancement or a bug fix you agree on, reply to this email stating that you approve the patch and a committer will take care of it. The full text of the PR can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/156914 -- Edwin Groothuis via the GNATS Auto Assign Tool edwin@FreeBSD.org
State Changed From-To: open->feedback Awaiting maintainers feedback (via the GNATS Auto Assign Tool)
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->wxs I'll take it.
wxs 2011-05-12 23:46:14 UTC FreeBSD ports repository Modified files: security/vuxml vuln.xml Log: Document mediawiki multiple vulnerabilities. PR: ports/156914 Submitted by: Ryan Steinmetz <rpsfa@rit.edu> Revision Changes Path 1.2357 +30 -1 ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "cvs-all-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
wxs 2011-05-13 13:10:06 UTC FreeBSD ports repository Modified files: www/mediawiki Makefile distinfo Log: Update to 1.16.5 PR: ports/156914 Submitted by: Ryan Steinmetz <rpsfa@rit.edu> Approved by: maintainer timeout (3 days, security update) Security: 3fadb7c6-7b0a-11e0-89b4-001ec9578670 Revision Changes Path 1.67 +1 -1 ports/www/mediawiki/Makefile 1.50 +2 -2 ports/www/mediawiki/distinfo _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "cvs-all-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
State Changed From-To: feedback->closed Committed. Thanks!