Bug 953666 (CVE-2013-1951)

Summary: CVE-2013-1951 mediawiki: security releases 1.20.4 and 1.19.5
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: extras-orphan, ian, mike, puiterwijk, smooge
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Bug Depends On: 953668, 953669, 953670, 953671    
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Description Vincent Danen 2013-04-18 20:52:21 UTC
Three flaws were corrected in the recently-released MediaWiki 1.20.4 and 1.19.5 releases:

* An internal review discovered that specially crafted Lua function names could lead to XSS [1]

* Daniel Franke reported that during SVG parsing, MediaWiki failed to prevent XML external entity (XXE) processing. This could lead to local file disclosure, or potentially remote command execution in environments that have enabled expect:// handling. [2]

* Internal review also discovered that Special:Import, and Extension:RSS failed to prevent XML external entity (XXE) processing. [3]

CVE-2013-1951 was assigned to the first issue (the XSS), the other two do not have CVEs assigned as per a discussion on oss-sec [4].

[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46084
[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46859
[3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47251
[4] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/5

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2013-04-18 20:56:29 UTC
Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 953668]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 953669]

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2013-04-18 20:56:32 UTC
Created mediawiki119 tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: epel-6 [bug 953671]

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2013-04-18 20:56:35 UTC
Created mediawiki116 tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: epel-all [bug 953670]

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-04-30 03:26:12 UTC
mediawiki-1.19.5-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-04-30 03:32:09 UTC
mediawiki-1.19.5-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-05-01 19:24:36 UTC
mediawiki119-1.19.5-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.