Bug 465734 (CVE-2008-4408)

Summary:	CVE-2008-4408 mediawiki: XSS via the useskin parameter
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	axel.thimm, ian, roozbeh, smooge
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4408
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-10-06 07:22:48 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-4408 to the following vulnerability:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki 1.13.1, 1.12.0, and
possibly other versions before 1.13.2 allows remote attackers to inject
arbitrary web script or HTML via the useskin parameter to an unspecified
component.

References:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_2/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/02/3

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2008-10-07 09:46:14 UTC

mediawiki-1.13.2-41.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-10-07 09:52:23 UTC

mediawiki-1.13.2-40.99.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Axel Thimm 2008-10-08 13:58:53 UTC

Why didn't bodhi close this automatically?

Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2008-10-10 13:39:17 UTC

Because it treats bugs filed against 'Security Response' product in a special way.  Those bugs are used to track security issues across all "products", both Fedora and Red Hat products, so bodhi currently does not have a good way to know if there is still some product where this flaw needs to be addressed.  So it's intentional.

Comment 5 Red Hat Product Security 2008-10-10 13:39:55 UTC

This issue was addressed in:

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-8678
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-8639