2009/9/15 Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Gregory Kohs <thekoh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was sort of surprised to learn today that Mediawiki software has had 37
>> security holes identified:
>>
>> http://akahele.org/2009/09/false-sense-of-security/
>>
>> Are most of these patched now, or are they still open?  If still open, is
>> the Foundation making site & user security more of a priority in 2010?
>>
>> --
>> Gregory Kohs
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>
> I'm pretty sure a lot of this has been fixed (I vaguely remember Tim doing
> some cleanup to the installer for XSS issues), but I can't say for sure.
> Forwarding to wikitech-l, this is more of a tech issue than Foundation
> one.
>
This has been addressed on foundation-l already, but I'll make it
extra clear here: all these vulnerabilities reported by these database
are only in there because we discovered, fixed and reported them
first. The affected versions of MediaWiki range from old to stone-age.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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