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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                   ESB-2009.0393 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian]
                       mahara: Cross-site Scripting
                               23 April 2009

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:              mahara
Publisher:            Debian
Operating System:     Debian GNU/Linux
                      UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact:               Cross-site Scripting
Access:               Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names:            CVE-2009-0664

Original Bulletin:    http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1778

Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on
         platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators
         running mahara check for an updated version of the software for
         their operating system.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1778-1                    security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                                 Nico Golde
April 22nd, 2009                        http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : mahara
Vulnerability  : insufficient input sanitization
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CVE-2009-0664


It was discovered that mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and
resume builder, is prone to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks because
of missing input sanitization of the introduction text field in user
profiles and any text field in a user view.


The oldstable distribution (etch) does not contain mahara.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.4-4+lenny2.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.3-1.


We recommend that you upgrade your mahara packages.

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
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Debian (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, 
mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny2.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum:     1303 934fdf17abf7221e30fe68c925377126
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny2.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    39307 3193a6e1483f1375430cc236230bc9cc

Architecture independent packages:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny2_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:  1637064 9fc42b011a826509edc1fccdb9bc149e
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara-apache2_1.0.4-4+lenny2_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:     7830 30c258196ccbdddc6c4f25e1534ba96e


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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