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A mediawiki security update has been released for Fedora 37.



[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: mediawiki-1.38.7-1.fc37


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-d8ae3c122e
2023-09-02 01:33:04.042683
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Name : mediawiki
Product : Fedora 37
Version : 1.38.7
Release : 1.fc37
URL : https://www.mediawiki.org/
Summary : A wiki engine
Description :
MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia
Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent
range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple
servers

This package supports wiki farms. Read the instructions for creating wiki
instances under /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/README.RPM.
Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration.

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Update Information:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-
announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/H46H5ZYZG2PYUQ5STK7NWKF7GXYW7H6B/
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Aug 23 2023 Michael Cronenworth [mike@cchtml.com] - 1.38.7-1
- Update to 1.38.7
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2217429 - CVE-2023-36675 mediawiki: cross site scripting [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2217429
[ 2 ] Bug #2233911 - CVE-2023-36674 mediawiki: Manualthumb bypasses badFile lookup [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233911
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-d8ae3c122e' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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