Fedora 8 : mediawiki-1.13.2-40.99.fc8 (2008-8678)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34357

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Sun Oct 5 2008 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> - 1.13.2-40.99

- Update to 1.13.2.

- Fedora 8 still needs ugly workaround.

- Sun Aug 24 2008 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net>
- 1.13.0-40

- Use consistently Patch0 and %patch0.

- Sat Aug 16 2008 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net>
- 1.13.0-39

- Update to 1.13.0.

- Wed May 21 2008 Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 1.10.4-40

- fix license tag

- Tue Mar 4 2008 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> - 1.10.4-38

- Update to 1.10.4.

- Sun Feb 17 2008 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net>
- 1.10.3-37

- Update to 1.10.3.

- Fixes CVE-2008-0460 (bug #430286).

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=465734

http://www.nessus.org/u?9bcb5ee1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34357

File Name: fedora_2008-8678.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/7/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/7/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4408

BID: 31540

CWE: 79

FEDORA: 2008-8678