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Debian: DSA-2901-3 Moderate: WordPress Dependency Fix for Squeeze

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2014
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The DSA-2901-3 update addresses a crucial WordPress dependency flaw in the oldstable release, rectifying severe security vulnerabilities.
The update of wordpress in DSA-2901-2 introduced a wrong versioned dependency on libjs-cropper, making the package uninstallable in the oldstable distribution (squeeze)
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Summary

For reference the original advisory text follows.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging
tool. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:

CVE-2014-0165

A user with a contributor role, using a specially crafted
request, can publish posts, which is reserved for users of the
next-higher role.

CVE-2014-0166

Jon Cave of the WordPress security team discovered that the
wp_validate_auth_cookie function in wp-includes/pluggable.php does
not properly determine the validity of authentication cookies,
allowing a remote attacker to obtain access via a forged cookie.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed
in version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb6u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



Package: wordpress
CVE ID: CVE-2014-0165 CVE-2014-0166

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