Bug 462770 (CVE-2008-4106)

Summary:	CVE-2008-4106 wordpress: sql column truncation flaw
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	Security
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OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4106
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Description Josh Bressers 2008-09-18 19:30:14 UTC

WordPress before 2.6.2 does not properly handle MySQL warnings about
insertion of username strings that exceed the maximum column width of
the user_login column, and does not properly handle space characters
when comparing usernames, which allows remote attackers to change an
arbitrary user's password to a random value by registering a similar
username and then requesting a password reset, related to a "SQL
column truncation vulnerability." NOTE: the attacker can discover the
random password by also exploiting CVE-2008-4107.


Note, wordpress 2.6.2 has been pushed for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9.

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2008-09-30 08:08:03 UTC

Upstream announcement:
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262/

Comment 2 Red Hat Product Security 2008-09-30 09:05:05 UTC

This issue was addressed in:

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-7760
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-7902