Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1724-1 moodle -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

13 Feb 2009

Affected Packages:

moodle

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 514284.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0500, CVE-2009-0502, CVE-2008-5153.

More information:

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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3-2+etch2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3-2+etch2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3-2+etch2_all.deb

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