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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2015-7353
2015-08-23 02:26:42.019495
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Name : wordpress
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 4.2.4
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://www.wordpress.org
Summary : Blog tool and publishing platform
Description :
Wordpress is an online publishing / weblog package that makes it very easy,
almost trivial, to get information out to people on the web.
Important information in /usr/share/doc/wordpress-4.2.4/README.fedora
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Update Information:
**WordPress 4.2.4 Security and Maintenance Release** WordPress 4.2.4 is now
available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly
encourage you to update your sites immediately. This release addresses six
issues, including three cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential SQL
injection that could be used to compromise a site, which were discovered by
Marc-Alexandre Montpas of Sucuri, Helen Hou-Sandí of the WordPress security
team, Netanel Rubin of Check Point, and Ivan Grigorov. It also includes a fix
for a potential timing side-channel attack, discovered by Johannes Schmitt of
Scrutinizer, and prevents an attacker from locking a post from being edited,
discovered by Mohamed A. Baset. Our thanks to those who have practiced
responsible disclosure of security issues. WordPress 4.2.4 also fixes four
bugs. For more information, see: the release notes or consult the list of
changes. * the release notes:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.4 * the
list of changes:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/log/branches/4.2?rev=33573&stop_rev=3...
**WordPress 4.2.3 Security and Maintenance Release** WordPress 4.2.3 is now
available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly
encourage you to update your sites immediately. WordPress versions 4.2.2 and
earlier are affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability, which could allow
users with the Contributor or Author role to compromise a site. This was
initially reported by Jon Cave and fixed by Robert Chapin, both of the WordPress
security team, and later reported by Jouko Pynnönen. We also fixed an issue
where it was possible for a user with Subscriber permissions to create a draft
through Quick Draft. Reported by Netanel Rubin from Check Point Software
Technologies. Our thanks to those who have practiced responsible disclosure
of security issues. WordPress 4.2.3 also contains fixes for 20 bugs from 4.2.
For more information, see: * the release notes:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.3 * the list of changes:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/log/branches/4.2?rev=33382&stop_rev=3...
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1250583 - CVE-2015-2213 CVE-2015-5730 CVE-2015-5731 CVE-2015-5732
CVE-2015-5733 CVE-2015-5734 wordpress: cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a
potential SQL injection
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250583
[ 2 ] Bug #1246396 - CVE-2015-5622 CVE-2015-5623 wordpress: cross-site scripting and
permission issue fixed in wordpress 4.2.3
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246396
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update wordpress' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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