Debian DSA-2334-1 : mahara - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56714

Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder :

- CVE-2011-2771 Teemu Vesala discovered that missing input sanitising of RSS feeds could lead to cross-site scripting.

- CVE-2011-2772 Richard Mansfield discovered that insufficient upload restrictions allowed denial of service.

- CVE-2011-2773 Richard Mansfield discovered that the management of institutions was prone to cross-site request forgery.

- (no CVE ID available yet)

Andrew Nichols discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in MNet handling.

Solution

Upgrade the mahara packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-4+lenny11.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.6-2+squeeze3.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2771

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2772

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2773

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2334

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56714

File Name: debian_DSA-2334.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mahara, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2771, CVE-2011-2772, CVE-2011-2773

DSA: 2334