Fedora 10: 2009-3280 Moderate: Moodle TeX Filter File Access Risk

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software

package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create

effective online learning communities.

CVE-2009-1171: The TeX filter in Moodle 1.6 before 1.6.9+, 1.7 before 1.7.7+,

1.8 before 1.8.9, and 1.9 before 1.9.5 allows user-assisted attackers to read

arbitrary files via an input command in a "$$" sequence, which causes LaTeX to

include the contents of the file. Upstream bug and CVS commit:

https://id.atlassian.com/login?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fid.atlassian.com%2Fjoin%2Fuser-access%3Fresource%3Dari%253Acloud%253Ajira%253A%253Asite%252Fdb26294c-09fa-4e4e-bebe-d7410e9e2a67%26continue%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmoodle.atlassian.net%252Fjira&application=jira

;r2=1.18.4.5

References:

Upstream further reported that the above patch is not sufficient and following

change should be used instead: For >=1.9.0: For

1.6.* - 1.8.*: ;a=commitdiff;h=cc9

bf1486e7ea9e8cda1e4522b96e07245459a0d

* Wed Apr 1 2009 Jon Ciesla - 1.9.4-6

- Patch for CVE-2009-1171, BZ 493109.

* Tue Mar 24 2009 Jon Ciesla - 1.9.4-5

- Update for freefont->gnu-free-fonts change.

* Thu Feb 26 2009 Jon Ciesla - 1.9.4-4

- Fix for symlink dir replacement.

* Mon Feb 23 2009 Jon Ciesla - 1.9.4-2

- Putting back bundled MagpieRSS due to incompatibility, BZ 486777.

- Corrected moodle-cron.

* Tue Feb 10 2009 Jon Ciesla - 1.9.4-1

- Update to 1.9.4 to fix CVE-2009-0499,0500,0501,0502.

* Tue Jan 27 2009 Jon Ciesla - 1.9.3-6

- Dropped and symlinked to khmeros-base-fonts.

* Tue Jan 20 2009 Jon Ciesla - 1.9.3-5

- Dropped and symlinked illegal sm and to fonts.

- Symlinking to FreeSans.

- Drop spell-check-logic.cgi, CVE-2008-5153, per upstream, BZ 472117, 472119, 472120.

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Jon Ciesla - 1.9.3-4

- Texed fix, BZ 476709.

* Fri Nov 7 2008 Jon Ciesla - 1.9.3-3

- Moved to weekly downloaded 11/7/08 to fix Snoopy CVE-2008-4796.

* Fri Oct 31 2008 Jon Ciesla - 1.9.3-2

- Fix for BZ 468929, overactive cron job.

[ 1 ] Bug #493109 - CVE-2009-1171 moodle: file disclosure flaw in TeX filter

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493109

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