Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.artful:def:20158834000
Revision Date:2016-05-21Version:1
Title:CVE-2015-8834 on Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) - high.
Description:Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress before 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a long comment that is improperly stored because of limitations on the MySQL TEXT data type. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-3440.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2015-8834
Platform(s):Ubuntu 17.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) is installed.
  • AND NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'wordpress' package in artful is not affected.
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