Debian: New wordpress packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
Summary
CVE-2007-3238
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in functions.php in the default theme
in WordPress allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web
script or HTML via the PATH_INFO (REQUEST_URI) to wp-admin/themes.php.
CVE-2007-2821
SQL injection vulnerability in wp-admin/admin-ajax.php in WordPress before 2.2
allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the cookie
parameter.
CVE-2008-0193
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-db-backup.php in WordPress
2.0.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or
HTML via the backup parameter in a wp-db-backup.php action to
wp-admin/edit.php.
CVE-2008-0194
Directory traversal vulnerability in wp-db-backup.php in WordPress 2.0.3 and
earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, delete arbitrary
files, and cause a denial of service via a .. (dot dot) in the backup parameter
in a wp-db-backup.php action to wp-admin/edit.php.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version
2.0.10-1etch1. Wordpress is not present in the oldstable distribution (sarge).
We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress package.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 10454 5f3c8c32c87ac34dca41f2d93b87b1da
Size/MD5 checksum: 520314 e9d5373b3c6413791f864d56b473dd54
Size/MD5 checksum: 572 aacd4d2338fa941f11147d36d85149b9
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 519232 7508cf16054729cfae3444e07b369caf
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main