Debian: New wordpress packages fix several vulnerabilities
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1601-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst July 04, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : wordpress Vulnerability : several Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-1599 CVE-2008-0664 Debian Bug : 437085 464170 Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wordpress, the weblog manager. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2007-1599 WordPress allows remote attackers to redirect authenticated users to other websites and potentially obtain sensitive information. CVE-2008-0664 The XML-RPC implementation, when registration is enabled, allows remote attackers to edit posts of other blog users. For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.10-1etch3. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.3.3-1. 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: 891 d925a63731976b72ad35e4c1805623bf Size/MD5 checksum: 46073 486916bd4fc6463181eaba84fdc2db31 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 527158 280ba949f5c38079d2209a468697fb00 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
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