[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: mediawiki-1.19.4-2.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-3265
2013-03-02 19:17:22
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Name        : mediawiki
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.19.4
Release     : 2.fc18
URL         : http://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-1.19.4/README.RPM.
Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration.

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Update Information:

Bring mediawiki up to date to fix multiple bugs, security holes, and bring new features.

The package should automatically attempt to upgrade your wiki, but please make sure to perform backups before updating. Special care may be required for MySQL based wikis. See bug 845818.

Read the main mediawiki web site for Release Notes for 1.17, 1.18, and 1.19.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Mar 12 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.4-2
- Update mw-createinstance for new access points.
* Mon Mar  4 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.4-1
- New upstream release.
* Thu Feb 28 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.3-2
- Fix upgrade path.
* Wed Feb 27 2013 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> - 1.19.3-1
- New upstream release.
* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.16.5-62
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #882325 - CVE-2012-5391 mediawiki: Vulnerable to session fixation attacks
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882325
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update mediawiki' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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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