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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3036-1 mediawiki -- security update

Date Reported:

26 Sep 2014

Affected Packages:

mediawiki

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 762754.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-7199.

More information:

It was discovered that MediaWiki, a wiki engine, did not sufficiently filter CSS in uploaded SVG files, allowing for cross site scripting.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.19.19+dfsg-0+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.19.19+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki packages.