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A mediawiki security update has been released for Fedora 38.



SECURITY: Fedora 38 Update: mediawiki-1.39.3-1.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-9d6ab5ebf2
2023-04-15 02:01:33.484697
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Name : mediawiki
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 1.39.3
Release : 1.fc38
URL :   https://www.mediawiki.org/
Summary : A wiki engine
Description :
MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia
Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent
range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple
servers

This package supports wiki farms. Read the instructions for creating wiki
instances under /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/README.RPM.
Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration.

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Update Information:

  https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-
announce@lists.wikimedia.org/message/6UQBHI5FWLATD7QO7DI4YS54U7XSSLAN/
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Apr 1 2023 Michael Cronenworth - 1.39.3-1
- Update to 1.39.3
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2183628 - CVE-2023-29141 mediawiki: Auto-block can occur for an untrusted X-Forwarded-For header [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2183628
[ 2 ] Bug #2183670 - mediawiki-1.39.3 is available
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2183670
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-9d6ab5ebf2' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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