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HistoryOct 23, 2009 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2009-3622

2009-10-2300:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
3

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.034 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.4%

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in wp-trackback.php in WordPress
before 2.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU
consumption and server hang) via a long title parameter in conjunction with
a charset parameter composed of many comma-separated β€œUTF-8” substrings,
related to the mb_convert_encoding function in PHP.

Notes

Author Note
ari-tczew Exploit: http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phps
jdstrand fixed in 2.5.1-11+lenny3

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.034 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.4%