DSA-1778-1 mahara -- insufficient input sanitization

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1778-1 mahara -- insufficient input sanitization

Date Reported:

22 Apr 2009

Affected Packages:

mahara

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0664.

More information:

It was discovered that mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder, is prone to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks because of missing input sanitization of the introduction text field in user profiles and any text field in a user view.

The oldstable distribution (etch) does not contain mahara.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-4+lenny2.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mahara packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny2.diff.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny2_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara-apache2_1.0.4-4+lenny2_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.