Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mediawiki (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-MEDIAWIKI-632403
- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed30 Jan 2014
Introduced: 30 Jan 2014
CVE-2014-1610 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mediawiki package and not the mediawiki package as distributed by Ubuntu.
MediaWiki 1.22.x before 1.22.2, 1.21.x before 1.21.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.11, when DjVu or PDF file upload support is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) the page parameter to includes/media/DjVu.php; (2) the w parameter (aka width field) to thumb.php, which is not properly handled by includes/media/PdfHandler_body.php; and possibly unspecified vectors in (3) includes/media/Bitmap.php and (4) includes/media/ImageHandler.php.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-1610
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65223
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60339
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2891
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31329/
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127942.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127948.html
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14361&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14384&action=diff
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110069/
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110069/2/includes/media/Bitmap.php
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110215/
- http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/advisories/public/2014/cpai-26-jan.html
- http://www.checkpoint.com/threatcloud-central/articles/2014-01-28-tc-researchers-discover.html
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-January/000140.html
- http://osvdb.org/102630
- http://www.osvdb.org/102631
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029707
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56695
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57472
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31329