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Bug#696999: marked as done (unblock: mediawiki-extensions/2.11)

Your message dated Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:43:24 +0000
with message-id <1356885804.4281.43.camel@jacala.jungle.funky-badger.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#696999: [adam@adam-barratt.org.uk: Re: Bug#696999: unblock: mediawiki-extensions/2.11]
has caused the Debian Bug report #696999,
regarding unblock: mediawiki-extensions/2.11
to be marked as done.

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Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock

Please unblock mediawiki-extensions to fix the security bug #696179 (no CVE
has been assigned yet). This resolves an XSS attack on any user of a wiki
importing a malicious RSS feed (insufficient escaping). 

It has been uploaded as urgency=medium but could be aged to high if you
wish.

Thanks,

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            8->10. i am well qualified to say it is made from bonghits
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On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 16:33 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Jonathan Wiltshire dixit:
> 
> >Any idea what the comment in
> >
> >++              array('a', /* does not work */ 'img')));
> >
> >is about?
> 
> The MediaWiki HTML sanitiser accepts an array of tags to also
> accept in the output. I’ve tried whitelisting 'a' and 'img',
> but the latter does not currently work. I hope this will be
> addressed in a future version of MediaWiki (actually, I could
> probably cook up a patch), and right now, its presence there
> is a nop.

Hmmm, okay. Unblocked.

Regards,

Adam

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