[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki security release 1.16.3

[Brian J Mingus]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly at pobox.com> 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_rewrite:
> >
> >      RewriteEngine On
> >      RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \.[a-z]{1,4}$ [nocase]
> >      RewriteRule . - [forbidden]
> 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/)?
>
> Since the file is there, is there any need to change the web server
> configuration?
>
> Gordo
>
>
For starters, apache must be configured to parse .htaccess files.


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Brian Mingus
Graduate student
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
University of Colorado at Boulder