Bug 445065 – <www-apps/mediawiki-1.19.3: Security Bypass Vulnerabilities (CVE-2012-5391)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2012-11-28 11:41:05 UTC]

From https://secunia.com/advisories/51424/ :

Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in MediaWiki, which can be exploited by malicious users 
and malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

1) Some unspecified errors can be exploited to gain access to another user's account.

2) An unspecified error can be exploited to prevent access to e.g. the "Special:RecentChanges" 
page.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.18.6, 1.19.3, and 1.20.1.


Solution
Versions 1.18.6, 1.19.3, and 1.20.1 are scheduled to be release on November 29th, 2012 between 
21:00-22:00 UTC.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000121.html

[Comment 1 Tim Harder 2012-11-30 04:38:07 UTC]

Security bumps added to CVS. Feel free to stabilize 1.19.3.

[Comment 2 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) 2012-12-01 14:15:16 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Security bumps added to CVS. Feel free to stabilize 1.19.3.

Thanks, Tim.

Arches, please test and mark stable:
=www-apps/mediawiki-1.19.3
Target KEYWORDS: "amd64 ppc x86"

[Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo 2012-12-01 21:26:33 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo 2012-12-02 15:42:33 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 5 Andreas Schürch 2012-12-03 13:10:47 UTC]

x86 done, last arch.

[Comment 6 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) 2012-12-06 18:26:03 UTC]

Thanks, everyone.

GLSA vote: no.

[Comment 7 Tim Sammut (RETIRED) 2012-12-10 19:00:33 UTC]

Thanks, folks. GLSA Vote: no too, closing noglsa.