CVE - CVE-2009-3622

CVE-ID
CVE-2009-3622	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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FULLDISC:20091019 [Wordpress] Resource Exhaustion (Denial of Service) URL:http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263 MLIST:[oss-security] 20091021 CVE request: Wordpress Trackback DoS URL:http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2 MLIST:[oss-security] 20091021 Re: CVE request: Wordpress Trackback DoS URL:http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125614592004825&w=2 MISC:http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phps MISC:http://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress/ MISC:http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.html CONFIRM:http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/ CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056 OSVDB:59077 URL:http://www.osvdb.org/59077 SECTRACK:1023072 URL:http://securitytracker.com/id?1023072 SECUNIA:37088 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/37088 VUPEN:ADV-2009-2986 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986 XF:wordpress-wptrackback-dos(53884) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53884
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Date Entry Created
20091009	Disclaimer: The entry creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20091009)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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