Bug 465734 (CVE-2008-4408) - CVE-2008-4408 mediawiki: XSS via the useskin parameter
Summary: CVE-2008-4408 mediawiki: XSS via the useskin parameter
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-4408
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-06 07:22 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:26 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-10-08 13:58:53 UTC
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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


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