Debian DSA-3011-1 : mediawiki - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 77358

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that MediaWiki, a website engine for collaborative work, is vulnerable to JSONP injection in Flash (CVE-2014-5241 ) and clickjacking between OutputPage and ParserOutput (CVE-2014-5243 ). The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MediaWiki to the new upstream version 1.19.18, which includes additional changes.

Solution

Upgrade the mediawiki packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.19.18+dfsg-0+deb7u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 77358

File Name: debian_DSA-3011.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/25/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mediawiki, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-5241, CVE-2014-5243

BID: 69136, 69137

DSA: 3011

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