Bug 237406 (CVE-2008-4106)

Summary:	www-apps/wordpress < 2.6.2: MySQL table truncation (CVE-2008-4106)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Hanno Böck <hanno>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	gentoo_bugs_2_peep
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262/
Whiteboard:	~3 [noglsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Hanno Böck gentoo-dev

2008-09-11 17:27:00 UTC

I know wordpress is not security supportet atm, but anyway I think we should bump it. 2.6.1 also had some security fixes afair and is not yet in the tree.

Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-09-19 15:28:20 UTC

CVE-2008-4106 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4106):
  WordPress before 2.6.2 does not properly handle MySQL warnings about
  insertion of username strings that exceed the maximum column width of
  the user_login column, and does not properly handle space characters
  when comparing usernames, which allows remote attackers to change an
  arbitrary user's password to a random value by registering a similar
  username and then requesting a password reset, related to a "SQL
  column truncation vulnerability." NOTE: the attacker can discover the
  random password by also exploiting CVE-2008-4107.

Comment 2 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-09-21 13:28:09 UTC

Removed wordpress-2.5.1, -2.6, added 2.6.2. Security masked anyway. Webapps done.