Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2030-1 mahara -- sql injection
- Date Reported:
- 06 Apr 2010
- Affected Packages:
- mahara
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-0400.
- More information:
-
It was discovered that mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder is not properly escaping input when generating a unique username based on a remote user name from a single sign-on application. An attacker can use this to compromise the mahara database via crafted user names.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-4+lenny5.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.4-1.
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+lenny5.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny5.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny5.dsc
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara-apache2_1.0.4-4+lenny5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny5_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.