National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0537

Overview

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in (1) languages/Language.php and (2) includes/StubObject.php in MediaWiki 1.8.0 and other versions before 1.16.2, when running on Windows and possibly Novell Netware, allow remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local PHP files via vectors related to a crafted language file and the Language::factory function.

Impact

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External Source: MLIST

Name: [MediaWiki-announce] 20110201 MediaWiki security release 1.16.2

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-February/000095.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.2.patch.gz

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.2.patch.gz

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27094

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27094

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0273

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0273

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110203 Re: CVE request: Server-side arbitrary script inclusion vulnerability in MediaWiki <=1.16.1

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/03/3

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110201 CVE request: Server-side arbitrary script inclusion vulnerability in MediaWiki <=1.16.1

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/01/4

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 70799

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/70799

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 70798

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/70798