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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1724-1] New moodle packages fix several vulnerabilities

    From Martin Schulze@1:229/2 to All on Fri Feb 13 21:50:06 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1724-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Steffen Joeris February 13th, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : moodle
    Vulnerability : several vulnerabilities
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE IDs : CVE-2009-0500 CVE-2009-0502 CVE-2008-5153
    Debian Bug : 514284

    Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Moodle, an online
    course management system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
    project identifies the following problems:

    CVE-2009-0500

    It was discovered that the information stored in the log tables
    was not properly sanitized, which could allow attackers to inject
    arbitrary web code.

    CVE-2009-0502

    It was discovered that certain input via the "Login as" function
    was not properly sanitised leading to the injection of arbitrary
    web script.

    CVE-2008-5153

    Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the SpellCheker plugin creates
    temporary files insecurely, allowing a denial of service attack.
    Since the plugin was unused, it is removed in this update.

    For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in
    version 1.6.3-2+etch2.

    For the testing (lenny) distribution these problems have been fixed in
    version 1.8.2.dfsg-3+lenny1.

    For the unstable (sid) distribution these problems have been fixed in
    version 1.8.2.dfsg-4.

    We recommend that you upgrade your moodle package.


    Upgrade Instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
    - -------------------------------

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3-2+etch2.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 793 b86fd980d09fc1f54744962d765a17d7
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3-2+etch2.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 25398 60b9bf677040fbd71e7951deaa8b91d7
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 7465709 2f9f3fcf83ab0f18c409f3a48e07eae2

    Architecture independent components:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3-2+etch2_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 6582298 7a90893e954672f33e129aa4d7ca5aa3


    These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
    its next update.

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    For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
    For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
    Mailing list: [email protected]
    Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>

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