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Posted on 12 April 2014
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2901-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
April 12, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : wordpress
CVE ID : CVE-2014-0165 CVE-2014-0166
Debian Bug : 744018
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging
tool. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:
CVE-2014-0165
A user with a contributor role, using a specially crafted
request, can publish posts, which is reserved for users of the
next-higher role.
CVE-2014-0166
Jon Cave of the WordPress security team discovered that the
wp_validate_auth_cookie function in wp-includes/pluggable.php does
not properly determine the validity of authentication cookies,
allowing a remote attacker to obtain access via a forged cookie.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed
in version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb6u2.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u2.
For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.8.2+dfsg-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.8.2+dfsg-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
