[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#508868: mediawiki: several security issues, help wanted !

Raphael Geissert atomo64 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 16 05:02:31 UTC 2008


close 508860
thanks

Hi Romain et al,

On Monday 15 December 2008, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> Package: mediawiki
> Severity: grave
> Tags: security
> Justification: user security hole
>
>
> 	Hi all !
>
> Several security issues have unfortunately been noticed [1] in mediawiki
> that may affect for some any version of the software.

Sorry for filing the extra bugs, I clicked the send email button way too fast.
I am closing this one so that we can track the issues in individual bug 
reports.

>
> Unfortunately too, I will most likely be overhelmed during the next few
> months. As a consequence, any help is much desired on this issue. That
> package is SVN maintained so it shouldn't be difficult for any interested
> contributor.
>
> Romain
>
> [1]:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/00008
>0.html

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