[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#508869: CVE-2008-5250: several local script injection vulnerabilities in MediaWiki

[Raphael Geissert]

Package: mediawiki
Version: 1:1.7
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi,

The following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was published for 
mediawiki.

[0]:
> * A local script injection vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer
> clients for all MediaWiki installations with uploads enabled.
> [CVE-2008-5250]
> * A local script injection vulnerability affecting clients with SVG
> scripting capability (such as Firefox 1.5+), for all MediaWiki
> installations with SVG uploads enabled. [CVE-2008-5250]

A patch fixing this and other issues can be found at [0].

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE id in 
the changelog entry.

[0]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5250
     http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-5250

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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