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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200611-10.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200611-10">
<title>WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>
Flaws in WordPress allow a Denial of Service, the disclosure of user
metadata and the overwriting of restricted files.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">wordpress</product>
<announced>November 17, 2006</announced>
<revised>November 17, 2006: 01</revised>
<bug>153303</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="www-apps/wordpress" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.0.5</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.0.5</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based multiuser blogging system.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
"random" discovered that users can enter serialized objects as strings
in their profiles that will be harmful when unserialized. "adapter"
found out that user-edit.php fails to effectively deny non-permitted
users access to other user's metadata. Additionally, a directory
traversal vulnerability in the wp-db-backup module was discovered.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
By entering specially crafted strings in his profile, an attacker can
crash PHP or even the web server running WordPress. Additionally, by
crafting a simple URL, an attacker can read metadata of any other user,
regardless of their own permissions. A user with the permission to use
the database backup plugin can possibly overwrite files he otherwise
has no access to.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All WordPress users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-apps/wordpress-2.0.5&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5705">CVE-2006-5705</uri>
<uri link="http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3142">WordPress Ticket 3142</uri>
<uri link="http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2591">WordPress Ticket 2591</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:56:04 +0000">
frilled
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:33:42 +0000">
frilled
</metadata>
</glsa>