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: Fedora 11 Update: wordpress-2.8.6-2.fc11
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in
users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog,
upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-11693
2009-11-18 13:33:33
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Name : wordpress
Product : Fedora 11
Version : 2.8.6
Release : 2.fc11
URL : http://www.wordpress.org
Summary : WordPress blogging software
Description :
Wordpress is an online publishing / weblog package that makes it very easy,
almost trivial, to get information out to people on the web.
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Update Information:
2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in
users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog,
upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Nov 16 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8.6-2
- updated to 2.8.6 (Security Release)
* Wed Oct 21 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8.5-1
- updated to 2.8.5 (Hardening Release)
* Sun Aug 30 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8.4-1
- updated to 2.8.4 (security fixes were already available with 2.8.3-2)
* Tue Aug 11 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8.3-2
- another security update to fix "Remote admin reset password":
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2009-August/070137.html
* Mon Aug 3 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8.3-1
- updated to 2.8.3 for security fixes
* Tue Jul 28 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8.2-1
- updated to 2.8.2 for security fixes - BZ 512900
- fixed "wrong-script-end-of-line-encoding" of license.txt
- correctly disable auto update check
- fixed an error message from 'find' during the build
* Mon Jul 27 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.8.1-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
* Fri Jul 10 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8.1-1
- updated to 2.8.1 for security fixes - BZ 510745
* Mon Jun 22 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8-1
- updated to 2.8
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update wordpress' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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