Debian DSA-2262-1 : moodle - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 55146

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several cross-site scripting and information disclosure issues have been fixed in Moodle, a course management system for online learning :

- MSA-11-0002 Cross-site request forgery vulnerability in RSS block

- MSA-11-0003

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in tag autocomplete

- MSA-11-0008

IMS enterprise enrolment file may disclose sensitive information

- MSA-11-0011

Multiple cross-site scripting problems in media filter

- MSA-11-0015

Cross Site Scripting through URL encoding

- MSA-11-0013

Group/Quiz permissions issue

Solution

Upgrade the moodle packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.9.dfsg2-2.1+squeeze1.

See Also

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=170002

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=170003

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=170009

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=170012

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175592

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175590

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/moodle

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2262

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 55146

File Name: debian_DSA-2262.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/16/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:moodle, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 6/15/2011

Reference Information

DSA: 2262