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wordpress-mu: denial of service

Package(s):wordpress-mu CVE #(s):
Created:November 10, 2009 Updated:November 11, 2009
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla: A denial of service (resource exhaustion) flaw was found in the way WordPress used to handle HTTP headers, contained in the "trackback" message, sent to WordPress. A local, unprivileged user could sent a specially-crafted trackback message to running instance of WordPress, leading to its crash.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2009-11260 2009-11-10
Fedora FEDORA-2009-11292 2009-11-10
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