Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.artful:def:20158624000
Revision Date:2017-03-23Version:1
Title:CVE-2015-8624 on Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) - medium.
Description:The User::matchEditToken function in includes/User.php in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 does not perform token comparison in constant time before determining if a debugging message should be logged, which allows remote attackers to guess the edit token and bypass CSRF protection via a timing attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8623.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2015-8624
Platform(s):Ubuntu 17.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) is installed.
  • AND The 'mediawiki' package in artful is affected and needs fixing.
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