CVE-2009-3622

Publication date 23 October 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in wp-trackback.php in WordPress before 2.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and server hang) via a long title parameter in conjunction with a charset parameter composed of many comma-separated “UTF-8” substrings, related to the mb_convert_encoding function in PHP.

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Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
wordpress 11.10 oneiric
Not affected
11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
9.10 karmic Ignored end of life
9.04 jaunty Ignored end of life
8.10 intrepid Ignored end of life, was needed
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life

Notes

ari-tczew

Exploit: http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phps

jdstrand

fixed in 2.5.1-11+lenny3