CVE-2009-3622 (GCVE-0-2009-3622)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-10-23 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:31
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
13 references
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|---|---|
| http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263 | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC |
| http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpr… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125614592004825&w=2 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phps | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/37088 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.osvdb.org/59077 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| http://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://securitytracker.com/id?1023072 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpres… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2009-10-19 00:00
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