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Debian: moodle several vulnerabilities Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Debian Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Moodle, an online course management system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1986-1                  security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                      Steffen Joeris
February 02, 2010                     http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : moodle                 
Vulnerability  : several vulnerabilities
Problem type   : remote                 
Debian-specific: no                     
CVE IDs        : CVE-2009-4297 CVE-2009-4298 CVE-2009-4299 CVE-2009-4301
                 CVE-2009-4302 CVE-2009-4303 CVE-2009-4305              
Debian Bugs    : 559531                                                 


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

CVE-2009-4297

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities have been
discovered.                                                         

CVE-2009-4298

It has been discovered that the LAMS module is prone to the disclosure
of user account information.                                          

CVE-2009-4299

The Glossary module has an insufficient access control mechanism.

CVE-2009-4301

Moodle does not properly check permissions when the MNET service is
enabled, which allows remote authenticated servers to execute arbitrary
MNET functions.

CVE-2009-4302

The login/index_form.html page links to an HTTP page instead of using an
SSL secured connection.

CVE-2009-4303

Moodle stores sensitive data in backup files, which might make it
possible for attackers to obtain them.

CVE-2009-4305

It has been discovered that the SCORM module is prone to an SQL
injection.

Additionally, an SQL injection in the update_record function, a problem
with symbolic links and a verification problem with Glossary, database
and forum ratings have been fixed.


For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8.2.dfsg-3+lenny3.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), there are no fixed packages
available and it is too hard to backport many of the fixes. Therefore,
we recommend to upgrade to the lenny version.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2.dfsg-6.


We recommend that you upgrade your moodle packages.


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 below:

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 5.0 alias lenny
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Debian (stable)
- ---------------

Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.8.2.dfsg-3+lenny3.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum:     1332 e6692ee05c7eda37d36ef9a0d24ce2ae
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.8.2.dfsg.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 10162497 d116f83641c70216a94168aa2c303004
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.8.2.dfsg-3+lenny3.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    67070 e8843f3e443495842705c040c0d98779

Architecture independent packages:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.8.2.dfsg-3+lenny3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:  8628382 1985ebd60f8f9f2fb03a25e9b0c58c50


  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: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
 
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