[SECURITY] [DSA 1564-1] New wordpress packages fix several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory DSA-1564-1 [email protected]
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:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordpress/wordpress_2.0.10.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 520314 e9d5373b3c6413791f864d56b473dd54
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordpress/wordpress_2.0.10-1etch2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 29327 663e0b7c1693ff63715e0253ad5cc036
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordpress/wordpress_2.0.10-1etch2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 891 2e297f530d472f47b40ba50ea04b1476

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordpress/wordpress_2.0.10-1etch2_all.deb
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: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;