DSA-1901-1 mediawiki1.7 -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1901-1 mediawiki1.7 -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

05 Oct 2009

Affected Packages:

mediawiki1.7

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 508868, Bug 508869, Bug 508870, Bug 514547.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-5249, CVE-2008-5250, CVE-2008-5252, CVE-2009-0737.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mediawiki1.7, a website engine for collaborative work. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2008-5249

  David Remahl discovered that mediawiki1.7 is prone to a cross-site scripting attack.

• CVE-2008-5250

  David Remahl discovered that mediawiki1.7, when Internet Explorer is used and uploads are enabled, or an SVG scripting browser is used and SVG uploads are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by editing a wiki page.

• CVE-2008-5252

  David Remahl discovered that mediawiki1.7 is prone to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in the Special:Import feature.

• CVE-2009-0737

  It was discovered that mediawiki1.7 is prone to a cross-site scripting attack in the web-based installer.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.1-9etch4 for mediawiki1.7, and mediawiki is not affected (it is a metapackage for mediawiki1.7).

The stable (lenny) distribution does not include mediawiki1.7, and these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.12.0-2lenny3 for mediawiki which was already included in the lenny release.

The unstable (sid) and testing (squeeze) distributions do not include mediawiki1.7, and these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.14.0-1 for mediawiki.

We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki1.7 packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mediawiki1.7/mediawiki1.7_1.7.1-9etch4.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mediawiki1.7/mediawiki1.7_1.7.1.orig.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mediawiki1.7/mediawiki1.7_1.7.1-9etch4.diff.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mediawiki1.7/mediawiki1.7_1.7.1-9etch4_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mediawiki1.7/mediawiki1.7-math_1.7.1-9etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mediawiki1.7/mediawiki1.7-math_1.7.1-9etch4_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mediawiki1.7/mediawiki1.7-math_1.7.1-9etch4_arm.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mediawiki1.7/mediawiki1.7-math_1.7.1-9etch4_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mediawiki1.7/mediawiki1.7-math_1.7.1-9etch4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mediawiki1.7/mediawiki1.7-math_1.7.1-9etch4_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mediawiki1.7/mediawiki1.7-math_1.7.1-9etch4_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mediawiki1.7/mediawiki1.7-math_1.7.1-9etch4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mediawiki1.7/mediawiki1.7-math_1.7.1-9etch4_powerpc.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mediawiki1.7/mediawiki1.7-math_1.7.1-9etch4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.