Bug 603754

Summary:	<www-apps/wordpress-4.7.1: Remote code execution through embedded dev-php/PHPMailer (CVE-2016-10033)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) <whissi>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	chris, web-apps
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37210
Whiteboard:	~2 [noglsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	603752

Description Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-12-26 13:18:54 UTC

It is suspected that this package is vulnerable to a security vulnerability via embedded dev-php/PHPMailer. As such we ask maintainers with packages suspected to be vulnerable to verify if the package is (or have been) affected. 

Please see the information contained in the tracker bug 603752.

Comment 1 Anthony Basile gentoo-dev

2017-01-04 00:45:14 UTC

I've bumped wordpress to the latest version 4.7 which is not vulnerable.

Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-01-04 00:50:40 UTC

No, vanilla WordPress v4.7 is vulnerable. It ships the vulnerable PHPMailer class (just renamed). Upstream already merged the patched version, see $URL, but changes not released yet.

Comment 3 Anthony Basile gentoo-dev

2017-01-04 06:31:09 UTC

(In reply to Thomas Deutschmann from comment #2)
> No, vanilla WordPress v4.7 is vulnerable. It ships the vulnerable PHPMailer
> class (just renamed). Upstream already merged the patched version, see $URL,
> but changes not released yet.

Thanks for the clarification.

Comment 4 Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev

2017-01-11 20:19:20 UTC

Bump to 4.7.1 with a fix.


commit 67671baada119a8d4b6491afd9bfffe8c397f0c2
Author: Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o>
Date:   Wed Jan 11 21:18:00 2017 +0100

    www-apps/wordpress: 4.7.1 (bug #603754)
    
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.3, Repoman-2.3.1

 www-apps/wordpress/Manifest               |  1 +
 www-apps/wordpress/wordpress-4.7.1.ebuild | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+)

https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/67671baada119a8d4b6491afd9bfffe8c397f0c2

Comment 5 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-01-11 20:35:58 UTC

@ Maintainer(s): Thank you for the bump. Cleanup will happen as part of bug 605408.