Bug 696360 (CVE-2011-1578, CVE-2011-1579, CVE-2011-1580, CVE-2011-1587) - CVE-2011-1578 CVE-2011-1579 CVE-2011-1580 CVE-2011-1587 mediawiki: multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 1.16.3, 1.16.4
Summary: CVE-2011-1578 CVE-2011-1579 CVE-2011-1580 CVE-2011-1587 mediawiki: multiple v...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-1578, CVE-2011-1579, CVE-2011-1580, CVE-2011-1587
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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: 695577 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 696361 696362
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-04-13 21:59 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2021-10-19 21:48 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-10-19 21:48:29 UTC
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Description Vincent Danen 2011-04-13 21:59:47 UTC 
Mediawiki 1.16.3 was released [1] to correct three security flaws:

Masato Kinugawa discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) issue, which
affects Internet Explorer clients only, and only version 6 and
earlier. Web server configuration changes are required to fix this
issue. Upgrading MediaWiki will only be sufficient for people who use
Apache with AllowOverride enabled. (CVE-2011-1578)

Wikipedia user Suffusion of Yellow discovered a CSS validation error
in the wikitext parser. This is an XSS issue for Internet Explorer
clients, and a privacy loss issue for other clients since it allows
the embedding of arbitrary remote images. (CVE-2011-1579)

MediaWiki developer Happy-Melon discovered that the transwiki import
feature neglected to perform access control checks on form submission.
The transwiki import feature is disabled by default. If it is enabled,
it allows wiki pages to be copied from a remote wiki listed in
$wgImportSources. The issue means that any user can trigger such an
import to occur. (CVE-2011-1580)

[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-April/000096.html
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-04-13 22:02:01 UTC 
Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 696361]
Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2011-04-13 22:02:04 UTC 
Created mediawiki116 tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: epel-all [bug 696362]
Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2011-04-14 02:49:31 UTC 
*** Bug 695577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2011-04-14 14:39:39 UTC 
1.16.3 is not sufficient, as it does not fully fix the CVE-2011-1578 issue.  Mediawiki 1.16.4 has been released to fully address it: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-April/000097.html
Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2011-04-18 21:57:46 UTC 
The issue noted in comment #4 (incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1578) has been assigned the name CVE-2011-1587.
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