[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: python-mwlib-0.13.5-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-3138
2012-03-07 07:11:56
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Name        : python-mwlib
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 0.13.5
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://pediapress.com/code/
Summary     : MediaWiki parser and utility library
Description :
mwlib provides a library for parsing MediaWiki articles and converting them to
different output formats. mwlib is used by Wikipedia's "Print/export" feature
in order to generate PDF documents from Wikipedia articles.

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Update Information:

Update to version 0.13.5, which solves the following issues:

It was reported that mwlib suffered from a flaw that could allow a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack on a mwlib installation by forcing it to parse a specially-crafted #iferror magic function. This issue has been resolved in version 0.13.5.

syntaxhighlight nodes are supported properly in version 0.13.5.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #800066 - mwlib: denial of service when parsing #iferror magic functions [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800066
  [ 2 ] Bug #798615 - python-mwlib-0.13.5 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798615
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update python-mwlib' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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