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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:01:21 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: John Lightsey <john@...nuts.net>
Subject: Re: CVE request: MovableType before 5.2.6

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On 06/13/2013 09:50 PM, John Lightsey wrote:
> 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
> 

Please use CVE-2013-2184 for this issue.

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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