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Fedora 27 : mediawiki (2017-78a4610238)

high Nessus Plugin ID 105906

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2017-November /000216.html

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mediawiki package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-78a4610238

http://www.nessus.org/u?0f53f1a4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105906

File Name: fedora_2017-78a4610238.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/30/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/30/2017

Reference Information