CVE-2007-0540 Information

Description

WordPress allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth or thread consumption) via pingback service calls with a source URI that corresponds to a file with a binary content type which is downloaded even though it cannot contain usable pingback data.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/30013 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2191 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1564 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457996/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458003/100/0/threaded