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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2009.0393 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian] mahara: Cross-site Scripting 23 April 2009 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- 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. - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 - - -------------------- 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 - - -------------------------------- Debian (stable) - - --------------- 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. - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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> - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknvSucACgkQHYflSXNkfP9g0gCgueRfLOeqF2CR/xxEGle8lf7s qesAn0IYvuNO9N4PeVE9cBKi2G3xvdwT =aPgi - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. 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