Debian 5.0 DSA-1736-1 Critical: Mahara Cross-Site Scripting Attack

It was discovered that mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and
resume builder, is prone to cross-site scripting attacks, which allows
the injection of arbitrary Java or HTML code.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.4-4+lenny1.

The oldstable distribution (etch) does not contain mahara.

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


We recommend that you upgrade your mahara package.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny

Stable updates are available for alpha...