Fedora 18 : mediawiki-1.19.8-1.fc18 (2013-15994)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70029

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- SECURITY: Sanitize ResourceLoader exception messages

- SECURITY: Token-getting functions will fail when using jsonp callbacks.

- SECURITY: Fix extension detection with 2 .'s

- Allow a string other than '*' as condition for DatabaseBase::delete()

- Purge upstream caches when deleting file assets.

- jquery.tablesorter: Add missing dependency on jquery.mwExtension

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1004538

http://www.nessus.org/u?0cabe5ca

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70029

File Name: fedora_2013-15994.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/21/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/7/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4301, CVE-2013-4302, CVE-2013-4303

BID: 62194, 62215, 62434

FEDORA: 2013-15994