DSA-1691-1 moodle -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1691-1 moodle -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

22 Dec 2008

Affected Packages:

moodle

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 432264, Bug 471158, Bug 489533, Bug 492492, Bug 504235, Bug 504345, Bug 508593.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-3555, CVE-2008-1502, CVE-2008-3325, CVE-2008-3326, CVE-2008-4796, CVE-2008-4810, CVE-2008-4811, CVE-2008-5432.

More information:

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Moodle, an online course management system. The following issues are addressed in this update, ranging from cross site scripting to remote code execution.

Various cross site scripting issues in the Moodle codebase (CVE-2008-3326, CVE-2008-3325, CVE-2007-3555, CVE-2008-5432, MSA-08-0021, MDL-8849, MDL-12793, MDL-11414, MDL-14806, MDL-10276).

Various cross site request forgery issues in the Moodle codebase (CVE-2008-3325, MSA-08-0023).

Privilege escalation bugs in the Moodle codebase (MSA-08-0001, MDL-7755).

SQL injection issue in the hotpot module (MSA-08-0010).

An embedded copy of Smarty had several vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-4811, CVE-2008-4810). An embedded copy of Snoopy was vulnerable to cross site scripting (CVE-2008-4796). An embedded copy of Kses was vulnerable to cross site scripting (CVE-2008-1502).

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.3-2+etch4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2.dfsg-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your moodle (1.6.3-2+etch4) package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3-2+etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3.orig.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3-2+etch4.dsc

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3-2+etch4_all.deb

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