DSA-4545-1 mediawiki -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4545-1 mediawiki -- security update

Date Reported:

18 Oct 2019

Affected Packages:

mediawiki

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-16738.

More information:

It was discovered that the Special:Redirect functionality of MediaWiki, a website engine for collaborative work, could expose suppressed user names, resulting in an information leak.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.27.7-1~deb9u2.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.31.4-1~deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki packages.

For the detailed security status of mediawiki please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mediawiki