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Secunia Security Advisory 22942

Secunia Security Advisory 22942
Posted Nov 20, 2006
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for wordpress. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain knowledge of potentially sensitive information or cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and by malicious people to gain knowledge of sensitive information.

tags | advisory, denial of service, vulnerability
systems | linux, gentoo
SHA-256 | b3436cea2fb37b14877165a23b927b81260ce08a4de32e4483d9e19a49953963

Secunia Security Advisory 22942

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To improve our services to our customers, we have made a number of
additions to the Secunia Advisories and have started translating the
advisories to German.

The improvements will help our customers to get a better
understanding of how we reached our conclusions, how it was rated,
our thoughts on exploitation, attack vectors, and scenarios.

This includes:
* Reason for rating
* Extended description
* Extended solution
* Exploit code or links to exploit code
* Deep links

Read the full description:
http://corporate.secunia.com/products/48/?r=l

Contact Secunia Sales for more information:
http://corporate.secunia.com/how_to_buy/15/?r=l

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for wordpress

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22942

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22942/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for wordpress. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain
knowledge of potentially sensitive information or cause a DoS (Denial
of Service), and by malicious people to gain knowledge of sensitive
information.

For more information:
SA22683

SOLUTION:
Update to "www-apps/wordpress-2.0.5" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-10.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA22683:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22683/

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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
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Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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