metadata/glsa/glsa-200606-08.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200606-08">
  <title>WordPress: Arbitrary command execution</title>
  <synopsis>
    WordPress fails to sufficiently check the format of cached username data.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">wordpress</product>
  <announced>June 09, 2006</announced>
  <revised>June 10, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>134397</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-apps/wordpress" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.0.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based content management and publishing
    system.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    rgod discovered that WordPress insufficiently checks the format of
    cached username data.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary
    commands by sending a specially crafted username. As of Wordpress 2.0.2
    the user data cache is disabled by default.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There are no known workarounds at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All WordPress users should upgrade to the latest available version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-apps/wordpress-2.0.3&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2667">CVE-2006-2667</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2702">CVE-2006-2702</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:40:51 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:50:23 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>