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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:56:52 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: Henri Salo <henri@...v.fi>
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
        Hanno Böck
 <hanno@...eck.de>,
        Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: CVE-request: WordPress 3.1.1

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On 04/19/2012 01:43 AM, Henri Salo wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:10:27PM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>> Can you make a clean list of security issues and the versions 
>> affected? Thanks.
> 
> Two issues in 3.1.1 are without 2011 CVE-identifiers, which are
> announced in here:
> http://wordpress.org/news/2011/04/wordpress-3-1-1/ (April 5,
> 2011).
> 
> Issue #1:
> 
> http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/72141 
> http://secunia.com/advisories/44038/
> 
> "Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being
> returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary
> HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an
> affected site."

Please use CVE-2011-4956 for this issue.

> Issue #2:
> 
> http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/72142 
> http://secunia.com/advisories/44038/
> 
> "The "make_clickable()" function in wp-includes/formatting.php does
> not properly check the URL length in comments before passing it to
> the PCRE library, which can be exploited to cause a crash."

Please use CVE-2011-4957 for this issue.

> Both vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 3.1.1.
> 
> - Henri Salo


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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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