CVE-2009-3622

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 (26)

• secalert@redhathttp://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phps
• secalert@redhathttp://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2
• secalert@redhathttp://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125614592004825&w=2
• secalert@redhathttp://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress/
• secalert@redhathttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/37088
• secalert@redhathttp://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.html
• secalert@redhathttp://securitytracker.com/id?1023072
• secalert@redhathttp://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/
• secalert@redhathttp://www.osvdb.org/59077
• secalert@redhathttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986
• secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056
• secalert@redhathttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53884
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phps
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2