CVE-2014-9034

Name	CVE-2014-9034
Description	wp-includes/class-phpass.php in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, 3.9.x before 3.9.3, and 4.x before 4.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password that is improperly handled during hashing, a similar issue to CVE-2014-9016.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-236-1, DSA-3085-1
NVD severity	medium (attack range: remote)
Debian Bugs	770425

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
wordpress (PTS)	jessie	4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u17	fixed
	jessie (security)	4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u18	fixed
	stretch	4.7.5+dfsg-2+deb9u3	fixed
	stretch (security)	4.7.5+dfsg-2+deb9u4	fixed
	buster, sid	4.9.8+dfsg1-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
wordpress	source	(unstable)	4.0.1+dfsg-1	medium		770425
wordpress	source	squeeze	3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb6u6	medium	DLA-236-1
wordpress	source	wheezy	3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u5	medium	DSA-3085-1

https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/
Upstream patch: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/30467