===================================================================== CERT-Renater Note d'Information No. 2008/VULN274 _____________________________________________________________________ DATE : 04/07/2008 HARDWARE PLATFORM(S) : / OPERATING SYSTEM(S) : Debian running wordpress. ====================================================================== - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: 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_2.0.10-1etch3.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 891 d925a63731976b72ad35e4c1805623bf http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordpress/wordpress_2.0.10-1etch3.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 46073 486916bd4fc6463181eaba84fdc2db31 Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordpress/wordpress_2.0.10-1etch3_all.deb 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: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/ ====================================================================== ========================================================= Les serveurs de référence du CERT-Renater http://www.urec.fr/securite http://www.cru.fr/securite http://www.renater.fr ========================================================= + CERT-RENATER | tel : 01-53-94-20-44 + + 151 bd de l'Hopital | fax : 01-53-94-20-41 + + 75013 Paris | email: certsvp@renater.fr + =========================================================