Bug 973386 - wordpress: denial of service in password-protected posts
Summary: wordpress: denial of service in password-protected posts
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 973254
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords: Security
Depends On: 973256 973257 973390 973391
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-06-11 20:18 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2013-06-12 09:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-06-12 09:04:44 UTC

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Description Vincent Danen 2013-06-11 20:18:43 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2013-06-11 20:30:57 UTC 
Created wordpress tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 973390]
Affects: epel-all [bug 973391]
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-06-12 09:04:44 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 973254 ***
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