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Secunia Advisory SA31870

Fedora update for wordpress

Secunia Advisory

SA31870

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Release Date

2008-09-12

Popularity

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

Brute force

Where

From remote

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Operating System

Fedora 8

Fedora 9

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

No CVE references.

Description

Fedora has issued an update for wordpress. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to guess automatically generated passwords.

For more information:
SA31737

Solution
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update wordpress").
Original Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00607.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00629.html

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Fedora update for wordpress

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