Bug 1071136 (CVE-2014-2243) - CVE-2014-2243 mediawiki: timing attack on token
Summary: CVE-2014-2243 mediawiki: timing attack on token
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: CVE-2014-2243
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1071142 1071143 1071157
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-02-28 06:58 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:13 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: mediawiki 1.22.3, mediawiki 1.21.6, mediawiki 1.19.12
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-12-14 16:41:30 UTC
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-02-28 06:58:49 UTC 
The MediaWiki 1.22.3, 1.21.6 and 1.19.12 release announcement notes:

* (bug 61346) SECURITY: Make token comparison use constant time. It seems like
  our token comparison would be vulnerable to timing attacks. This will take
  constant time.

The versions of MediaWiki in Fedora and EPEL 6 are affected. I have not tested EPEL 5.

References:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.html
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61346
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/I2a9e89120f7092015495e638c6fa9f67adc9b84f,n,z
Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-02-28 07:08:13 UTC 
Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1071142]
Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2014-02-28 07:08:17 UTC 
Created mediawiki119 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1071143]
Comment 3 Murray McAllister 2014-02-28 07:20:20 UTC 
Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-5 [bug 1071157]
Comment 4 Murray McAllister 2014-02-28 07:26:47 UTC 
CVE request: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1
Comment 5 Murray McAllister 2014-03-03 02:06:13 UTC 
MITRE assigned CVE-2014-2243 to this issue: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-03-11 04:08:41 UTC 
mediawiki-1.21.6-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-03-11 04:14:54 UTC 
mediawiki-1.21.6-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-04-04 20:30:38 UTC 
mediawiki119-1.19.13-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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