[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#585918: mediawiki: XSS vulnerabilities, CVEs

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

Package: mediawiki
Version: 1:1.15.3-1
Severity: normal
Tags: security

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CVE-2010-1647:
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki 1.15 before 1.15.4 and
1.16 before 1.16 beta 3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script
or HTML via crafted Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) strings that are processed as
script by Internet Explorer. 

CVE-2010-1648:
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the login interface in
MediaWiki 1.15 before 1.15.4 and 1.16 before 1.16 beta 3 allows remote
attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that (1) create
accounts or (2) reset passwords, related to the Special:Userlogin form. 

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-May/000091.html


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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