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Bug 569120 (CVE-2015-8622, CVE-2015-8623, CVE-2015-8624, CVE-2015-8625, CVE-2015-8626, CVE-2015-8627, CVE-2015-8628) - <www-apps/mediawiki-1.25.6: multiple vulnerabilities
Summary: <www-apps/mediawiki-1.25.6: multiple vulnerabilities
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2015-8622, CVE-2015-8623, CVE-2015-8624, CVE-2015-8625, CVE-2015-8626, CVE-2015-8627, CVE-2015-8628
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-sec...
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa cve]
Keywords:
Depends on: CVE-2016-6331, CVE-2016-6332, CVE-2016-6333, CVE-2016-6334, CVE-2016-6335, CVE-2016-6336, CVE-2016-6337
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Reported: 2015-12-22 08:26 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2017-01-16 03:42 UTC (History)
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2015-12-22 08:26:57 UTC
From ${URL} :

We recently released security fixes for MediaWiki. I believe the first five
issues should have CVE's assigned. The last issue (T109724) requires that
the organization running the wiki also releases detailed page view data
publicly, and probably not worth tracking with a CVE. However I'm happy for
mitre to assign one of they think this generally qualifies.

* (T117899) XSS from wikitext when $wgArticlePath='$1'. Internal review
discovered an XSS vector when MediaWiki is configured with a non-standard
configuration.
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117899>

* (T119309) User::matchEditToken should use constant-time string
comparison. Internal review discovered that tokens were being compared as
strings, which could allow a timing attack. This should possibly have 2
CVE's assigned, one for the original patch to use hash_equals in
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/156336/5/includes/User.php (released as
part of MediaWiki 1.25, and backported to 1.24 and 1.23 as part of this
patch) and one to fix T119309, related to the debugging statement.
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119309>

* (T118032) Error thrown by VirtualRESTService when POST variable starts
with '@'. Internal review discovered that MediaWiki was not sanitizing
parameters passed to the curl library, which could cause curl to upload
files from the webserver to an attacker.
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118032>

* (T115522) Passwords generated by User::randomPassword() may be shorter
than $wgMinimalPasswordLength. MediaWiki user Frank R. Farmer reported that
the password reset token could be shorter than the minimum required
password length.
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115522>

* (T97897) Incorrect parsing of IPs for global block. Wikimedia steward
Vituzzu reported that blocking IP addresses with zero-padded octets
resulted in a failure to block the IP address.
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97897>

* (T109724) A combination of Special:MyPage redirects and pagecounts allows
an external site to know the wikipedia login of an user. Wikimedia
user Xavier Combelle reported a way to identify user, when detailed page
view data is also released.
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109724>



@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2016-04-23 05:29:47 UTC
Any updates on this Bug?
Comment 2 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2016-06-05 23:45:33 UTC
Maintainers, can we have an update on the bug?
Comment 3 Tim Harder gentoo-dev 2016-08-11 20:00:15 UTC
(In reply to Yury German from comment #2)
> Maintainers, can we have an update on the bug?

Honestly I'd suggest package masking or even last-riting to force people who care about MediaWiki on gentoo to come out of the woodwork and (proxy-)maintain it. I used to semi-actively bump it even though I never used it, but I have little interest continuing to do so.
Comment 4 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-11-18 20:05:48 UTC
All reported vulnerabilities were fixed by upstream in v1.25.4 which never hits the Gentoo repository. However we now have v1.25.6 which contains these fixes: 

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/www-apps/mediawiki?id=4670a4d7b5e591d2a50673d8213f84614da645c4


@ Maintainer(s): Please tell us how to proceed. Can we stabilize =www-apps/mediawiki-1.25.6 or =www-apps/mediawiki-1.27.1?
Comment 5 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-11-18 20:32:07 UTC
@zlogene: why did you remove the CVEs from alias fields? these were correctly assigned
Comment 6 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2016-11-18 21:41:18 UTC
(In reply to Kristian Fiskerstrand from comment #5)
> @zlogene: why did you remove the CVEs from alias fields? these were
> correctly assigned

Do not we put only first CVE id there? Otherwise it looks long and ugly
Comment 7 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-11-18 23:10:03 UTC
(In reply to Mikle Kolyada from comment #6)
> (In reply to Kristian Fiskerstrand from comment #5)
> > @zlogene: why did you remove the CVEs from alias fields? these were
> > correctly assigned
> 
> Do not we put only first CVE id there? Otherwise it looks long and ugly

The only reason that was done in the past was bugzilla only supported one bug ID, with multiple alias possible this is the correct behavior agreed within security (and dramastically improves lookups without doing quirky searches).
Comment 8 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2016-11-19 09:43:00 UTC
(In reply to Kristian Fiskerstrand from comment #7)
> (In reply to Mikle Kolyada from comment #6)
> > (In reply to Kristian Fiskerstrand from comment #5)
> > > @zlogene: why did you remove the CVEs from alias fields? these were
> > > correctly assigned
> > 
> > Do not we put only first CVE id there? Otherwise it looks long and ugly
> 
> The only reason that was done in the past was bugzilla only supported one
> bug ID, with multiple alias possible this is the correct behavior agreed
> within security (and dramastically improves lookups without doing quirky
> searches).


Thanks, probably I missed this point, Have not filed the bugs for years.
Comment 9 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-01-16 03:42:28 UTC
GLSA Vote: No

tree is clean.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f923da46172598149d2f5b74b9667e92f957e532