Advisories » MGASA-2014-0157

Updated mediawiki packages fix CVE-2014-2665

Publication date: 03 Apr 2014
Modification date: 03 Apr 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-2665

Description

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability:

Login CSRF issue in MediaWiki before 1.22.5 in Special:ChangePassword, whereby
a user can be logged into an attackers account without being aware of it,
allowing the attacker to track the user's activity (CVE-2014-2665).

MediaWiki has been updated to version 1.22.5, fixing this and other issues.
                

References

• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-March/000145.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/01/7
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13110
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2665

SRPMS

3/core

• mediawiki-1.22.5-1.mga3

4/core

• mediawiki-1.22.5-1.mga4