The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1724-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Steffen Joeris
February 13th, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : moodle
Vulnerability : several vulnerabilities
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE IDs : CVE-2009-0500 CVE-2009-0502 CVE-2008-5153
Debian Bug : 514284
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Moodle, an online
course management system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2009-0500
It was discovered that the information stored in the log tables
was not properly sanitized, which could allow attackers to inject
arbitrary web code.
CVE-2009-0502
It was discovered that certain input via the "Login as" function
was not properly sanitised leading to the injection of arbitrary
web script.
CVE-2008-5153
Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the SpellCheker plugin creates
temporary files insecurely, allowing a denial of service attack.
Since the plugin was unused, it is removed in this update.
For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.6.3-2+etch2.
For the testing (lenny) distribution these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8.2.dfsg-3+lenny1.
For the unstable (sid) distribution these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8.2.dfsg-4.
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 at the end of this advisory:
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 4.0 alias etch
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3-2+etch2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 793 b86fd980d09fc1f54744962d765a17d7
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3-2+etch2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 25398 60b9bf677040fbd71e7951deaa8b91d7
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 7465709 2f9f3fcf83ab0f18c409f3a48e07eae2
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/moodle/moodle_1.6.3-2+etch2_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 6582298 7a90893e954672f33e129aa4d7ca5aa3
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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