290013 – <www-apps/wordpress-2.8.5: Hardening Release (CVE-2009-3622)

Bug 290013 - <www-apps/wordpress-2.8.5: Hardening Release (CVE-2009-3622)

Summary: <www-apps/wordpress-2.8.5: Hardening Release (CVE-2009-3622)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	http://wordpress.org/development/2009...
Whiteboard:	~2 [noglsa]
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Reported:	2009-10-21 13:49 UTC by Bernd Marienfeldt
Modified:	2009-10-25 15:18 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Bernd Marienfeldt 2009-10-21 13:49:07 UTC

The headline changes in this release are:

 * A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
 * Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
 * Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
 * Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.

Comment 1 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-10-21 19:45:21 UTC

2.8.5 in CVS.

Comment 2 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2009-10-21 20:15:58 UTC

Not stable -> Closing noglsa. Thanks.

Comment 3 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2009-10-25 15:18:23 UTC

CVE-2009-3622 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-3622):
  Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in wp-trackback.php in WordPress
  before 2.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
  (CPU consumption and server hang) via a long title parameter in
  conjunction with a charset parameter composed of many comma-separated
  "UTF-8" substrings, related to the mb_convert_encoding function in
  PHP.