Bug 758171 (CVE-2011-4360, CVE-2011-4361) - CVE-2011-4360 CVE-2011-4361 MediaWiki (x < v.1.17.1): Two information disclosure flaws
Summary: CVE-2011-4360 CVE-2011-4361 MediaWiki (x < v.1.17.1): Two information disclos...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-4360, CVE-2011-4361
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 758174 758175
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-29 13:13 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-10-19 21:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-19 21:50:02 UTC

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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-29 13:13:06 UTC 
An information disclosure flaw was found in the way MediaWiki, the wiki engine, processed 'curid' and 'oldid' request paramaters. A remote attacker could use this flaw to enumerate page titles on private MediaWiki installations.

Upstream bug report:
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32276

An information disclosure flaw was found in the way MediaWiki, the wiki engine, performed action=ajax requests dispatching to relevant internal functions. These requests were dispatched without any read permissions checks being done. A remote attacker could use this flaw to obtain data on private MediaWiki installations.

Upstream bug report:
[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32616

References:
[3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-November/000104.html
[4] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/29/6
[5] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392383

Upstream patch (covering both of the issues):
[6] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/104506
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-29 13:14:40 UTC 
These issues affect the version of the mediawiki package, as shipped with Fedora EPEL 5.
Please schedule an update.

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These issues affect the versions of the mediawiki package, as shipped with Fedora release of 14, 15, and 16. Please schedule an update.
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-29 13:15:52 UTC 
Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 758174]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 758175]
Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2011-11-29 21:30:56 UTC 
The first issue (upstream bug 32276) was assigned the name CVE-2011-4360.

The second issue (upstream bug 32616) was assigned the name CVE-2011-4361.

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/29/12
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