Debian: DSA-2115-2: New moodle packages fix several vulnerabilities
Summary
DSA-2115-1 introduced a regression because it lacked a dependency on
the wwwconfig-common package, leading to installations problems. This
update addresses this issue. For reference, the text of the original
advisory is provided below.
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Moodle, a
course management system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2010-1613
Moodle does not enable the "Regenerate session id during
login" setting by default, which makes it easier for remote
attackers to conduct session fixation attacks.
CVE-2010-1614
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities allow
remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via
vectors related to (1) the Login-As feature or (2) when the
global search feature is enabled, unspecified global search
forms in the Global Search Engine.
CVE-2010-1615
Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via vectors related to (1)
the add_to_log function in mod/wiki/view.php in the wiki
module, or (2) "data validation in some forms elements"
related to lib/form/selectgroups.php.
CVE-2010-1616
Moodle can create new roles when restoring a course, which
allows teachers to create new accounts even if they do not
have the moodle/user:create capability.
CVE-2010-1617
user/view.php does not properly check a role, which allows
remote authenticated users to obtain the full names of other
users via the course profile page.
CVE-2010-1618
A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the phpCAS
client library allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web
script or HTML via a crafted URL, which is not properly
handled in an error message.
CVE-2010-1619
A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the
fix_non_standard_entities function in the KSES HTML text
cleaning library (weblib.php) allows remote attackers to
inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted HTML entities.
CVE-2010-2228
A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the MNET
access-control interface allows remote attackers to inject
arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving extended
characters in a username.
CVE-2010-2229
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in
blog/index.php allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web
script or HTML via unspecified parameters.
CVE-2010-2230
The KSES text cleaning filter in lib/weblib.php does
not properly handle vbscript URIs, which allows remote
authenticated users to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS)
attacks via HTML input.
CVE-2010-2231
A Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in
report/overview/report.php in the quiz module allows remote
attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for
requests that delete quiz attempts via the attemptid
parameter.
This security update switches to a new upstream version and requires
database updates. After installing the fixed package, you must visit
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8.13-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.9.9.dfsg2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your moodle 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
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 11288160 81b992fa4d53753c7bb30edc727075f4
Size/MD5 checksum: 28005 205aafd0e7fbfb135332a942097e1187
Size/MD5 checksum: 1574 dc38b22bedf7d0340ad36c7a23b1fb07
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 9071180 501ea064c29b1c467947475ffb66bde7
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show