Resource Management Errors Affecting wordpress package, versions <3.9.2+dfsg-1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-WORDPRESS-363438
- published 18 Aug 2014
- disclosed 18 Aug 2014
Introduced: 18 Aug 2014
CVE-2014-5265 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable wordpress to version 3.9.2+dfsg-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wordpress package and not the wordpress package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.
The Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library, as used in WordPress before 3.9.2 and Drupal 6.x before 6.33 and 7.x before 7.31, permits entity declarations without considering recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-5265
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404
- https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/
- https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-5265