A denial of service vulnerability was reported in WordPress 3.5.1 [1],[2] that could allow a remote unauthenticated user to exhaust CPU and memory resources by sending an HTTP request with a specially-crafted password cookie to a WordPress URL of a password-protected post. This vulnerability is caused by an error when calculating the hash cycle count within the crypt_private() method in wp-includes/class-phpass.php.There is currently no upstream fix for this, and it requires the attacker to have knowledge of a WordPress site's password-protected post URL, if there is one. [1] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/541 [2] https://vndh.net/note:wordpress-351-denial-service
Created wordpress tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 973390] Affects: epel-all [bug 973391]
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 973254 ***