Advisories » MGASA-2019-0301

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 23 Oct 2019
Modification date: 23 Oct 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-16738

Description

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability:

In MediaWiki through 1.33.0, Special:Redirect allows information disclosure
of suppressed usernames via a User ID Lookup (CVE-2019-16738).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25566
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2019-October/000236.html
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2019-October/000238.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-16738

SRPMS

7/core

• mediawiki-1.31.5-1.mga7