oss-security - CVE request: MovableType before 5.2.6

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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:50:24 -0500
From: John Lightsey <john@...nuts.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE request: MovableType before 5.2.6

Hi everyone,

The 5.2.6 release of MovableType fixed a vulnerability in the handling
of comments to blog posts. The 'comment_state' parameter is processed by
MovableType's unserialize() function which can be used to send data into
Storable::thaw().

As documented by the perl-security team recently, Storable::thaw is
unsafe to use on untrusted inputs.

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/664f237a84176c09b20b62dbfe64dd736a7ce05e

The MovableType 5.2.6 release notes document the fix for this
vulnerability as:

"109458 Currently un-used parameters are unintentionally deleted when a
comment is posted"

http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/release-notes/movable-type-526-release-notes.html

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