Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki security release 1.16.3

2011-04-14 Thread Tim Starling
On 14/04/11 17:29, Gordon Joly wrote: > I see that this snippet is to be found in ".htaccess" file inside > ./images/ (this appears to be new file 1.16.3) > > Could the ".htaccess" be placed at top level (that is one above ./images/)? If you do that, then certain URLs that give harmless HTML res

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki security release 1.16.3

2011-04-14 Thread Brian J Mingus
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 12/04/2011 04:23, Tim Starling wrote: > > > > To fix this issue, configure your web server to deny requests with > > URLs that have a path part ending in a dot followed by a dangerous > > file extension. For example, in Apache with mod_rewr

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki security release 1.16.3

2011-04-14 Thread Gordon Joly
On 12/04/2011 04:23, Tim Starling wrote: > > To fix this issue, configure your web server to deny requests with > URLs that have a path part ending in a dot followed by a dangerous > file extension. For example, in Apache with mod_rewrite: > > RewriteEngine On > RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING

[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki security release 1.16.3

2011-04-11 Thread Tim Starling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.16.3, which is a security release. Three security issues were discovered. Masato Kinugawa discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) issue, which affects Internet Explorer clients only, and only versio