Debian: wordpress fix several vulnerabilities DSA-1564-1
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1564-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst May 01, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : wordpress Vulnerability : multiple Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-3639 CVE-2007-4153 CVE-2007-4154 CVE-2007-0540 Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in wordpress, a weblog manager. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2007-3639 Insufficient input sanitising allowed for remote attackers to redirect visitors to external websites. CVE-2007-4153 Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities allowed remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. CVE-2007-4154 SQL injection vulnerability allowed allowed remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary SQL commands. CVE-2007-0540 WordPress allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth or thread consumption) via pingback service calls with a source URI that corresponds to a file with a binary content type, which is downloaded even though it cannot contain usable pingback data. [no CVE name yet] Insufficient input sanitising caused an attacker with a normal user account to access the administrative interface. For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.10-1etch2. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.3-1. 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: 520314 e9d5373b3c6413791f864d56b473dd54 Size/MD5 checksum: 29327 663e0b7c1693ff63715e0253ad5cc036 Size/MD5 checksum: 891 2e297f530d472f47b40ba50ea04b1476 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 521244 4851fe016749b1b9c819fd8d5785198e These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org