Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2067-1 mahara -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

02 Jul 2010

Affected Packages:

mahara

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-1667, CVE-2010-1668, CVE-2010-1670, CVE-2010-2479.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder. The following Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project ids identify them:

CVE-2010-1667
Multiple pages performed insufficient input sanitising, making them vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks.
CVE-2010-1668
Multiple forms lacked protection against cross-site request forgery attacks, therefore making them vulnerable.
CVE-2010-1670
Gregor Anzelj discovered that it was possible to accidentally configure an installation of mahara that allows access to another user's account without a password.
CVE-2010-2479
Certain Internet Explorer-specific cross-site scripting vulnerabilities were discovered in HTML Purifier, of which a copy is included in the mahara package.

For the stable distribution (lenny), the problems have been fixed in version 1.0.4-4+lenny6.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), the problems have been fixed in version 1.2.5.

We recommend that you upgrade your mahara packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (stable)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny6.diff.gz; 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+lenny6.dsc
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara-apache2_1.0.4-4+lenny6_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny6_all.deb

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