Security Information / 2018 / Security Information -- DSA-4301-1 mediawiki

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4301-1 mediawiki -- security update

Date Reported:

22 Sep 2018

Affected Packages:

mediawiki

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-0503, CVE-2018-0504, CVE-2018-0505.

More information:

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in MediaWiki, a website engine for collaborative work, which result in incorrectly configured rate limits, information disclosure in Special:Redirect/logid and bypass of an account lock.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.27.5-1~deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki packages.

For the detailed security status of mediawiki please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mediawiki