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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2753-1 (mediawiki - information leak)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
It was discovered that in Mediawiki, a wiki engine, several API modules allowed anti-CSRF tokens to be accessed via JSONP. These tokens protect against cross site request forgeries and are confidential.
Affected Software
Affected Software
mediawiki on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.15.5-2squeeze6. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.19.5-1+deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.19.8+dfsg-1. We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki packages.