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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-10619
2013-06-24 20:07:36
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Name : wordpress
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 3.5.2
Release : 1.el5
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.
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Update Information:
WordPress 3.5.2 is now available. This is the second maintenance release of 3.5, fixing 12
bugs. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you
to update your sites immediately. The WordPress security team resolved seven security
issues, and this release also contains some additional security hardening.
The security fixes included:
- Blocking server-side request forgery attacks, which could potentially enable an attacker
to gain access to a site.
- Disallow contributors from improperly publishing posts, reported by Konstantin
Kovshenin, or reassigning the post’s authorship, reported by Luke Bryan.
- An update to the SWFUpload external library to fix cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.
Reported by mala and Szymon Gruszecki. (Developers: More on SWFUpload here.)
- Prevention of a denial of service attack, affecting sites using password-protected
posts.
- An update to an external TinyMCE library to fix a cross-site scripting vulnerability.
Reported by Wan Ikram.
- Multiple fixes for cross-site scripting. Reported by Andrea Santese and Rodrigo.
- Avoid disclosing a full file path when a upload fails. Reported by Jakub Galczyk.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #976784 - CVE-2013-2199 CVE-2013-2200 CVE-2013-2201 CVE-2013-2202
CVE-2013-2203 CVE-2013-2204 CVE-2013-2205 wordpress: Multiple security flaws to be
corrected within upstream 3.5.2 version
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976784
[ 2 ] Bug #973254 - CVE-2013-2173 wordpress: DoS when computing user-input hash for
certain password protected blogs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=973254
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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
http://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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