Bug 600190 (CVE-2016-6331, CVE-2016-6332, CVE-2016-6333, CVE-2016-6334, CVE-2016-6335, CVE-2016-6336, CVE-2016-6337)

Summary:	<www-apps/mediawiki-1.27.1: multiple vulnerabilities
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) <whissi>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	web-apps
Priority:	Normal	Flags:	stable-bot: sanity-check+
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.html
Whiteboard:	B3 [noglsa cve]
Package list:	=www-apps/mediawiki-1.27.1	Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	563636, 569120

Description Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-11-18 20:10:30 UTC

From $URL:

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.27.1, 1.26.4, 1.23.15!

These releases fix five security issues in core and one for the extension
PdfHandler. Download links are given at the end of this email.

== Security fixes ==

* (T139565) API: Generate head items in the context of the given title
(CVE-2016-6335)
* (T137264) XSS in unclosed internal links (CVE-2016-6334)
* (T133147) Escape '<' and ']]>' in inline <style> blocks (CVE-2016-6333)
* (T133147) Require login to preview user CSS pages (CVE-2016-6333)
* (T132926) Do not allow undeleting a revision deleted file if it is the
top file (CVE-2016-6336)
* (T129738) Make $wgBlockDisablesLogin also restrict logged in permissions
(CVE-2016-6332)
* (T129738) Make blocks log users out if $wgBlockDisablesLogin is true
(CVE-2016-6332)
* (T115333) Check read permission when loading page content in ApiParse
(CVE-2016-6331)
* (T57548) Remove support for $wgWellFormedXml = false, all output is now
well formed

The following only affects 1.27 and above and is not included in the 1.26
and 1.23 upgrade:
* (T139670) Move 'UserGetRights' call before application of
Session::getAllowedUserRights() (CVE-2016-6337)

The following fix is for the PdfHandler extension:
* (T136402) Add -dSAFER to ghostscript as hardening measure

== Release notes ==

Full release notes for 1.27.1:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.27>

Full release notes for 1.26.4:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.26>

Full release notes for 1.23.15:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.23>

For information about how to upgrade, see
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading>

Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-11-18 20:13:22 UTC

v1.27.1 is already in the Gentoo repository:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/www-apps/mediawiki?id=8103e969f43ae4daf1845d37e0cec7fcbb4575bb


@ Maintainer(s): Please tell us if we can stabilize =www-apps/mediawiki-1.27.1

Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-11-29 00:28:32 UTC

@ Arches,

please test and mark stable: =www-apps/mediawiki-1.27.1

Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2016-11-29 11:23:23 UTC

amd64 stable

Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2016-11-29 11:24:25 UTC

x86 stable

Comment 5 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2017-01-15 16:03:42 UTC

ppc stable.

Maintainer(s), please cleanup.
Security, please vote.

Comment 6 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-01-16 03:41:08 UTC

GLSA Vote: No

tree is clean