Summary
The remote host is missing an update to mahara
announced via advisory DSA 2206-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202206-1
Insight
Two security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mahara, a fully featured electronic portfolio, weblog, resume builder and social networking system:
CVE-2011-0439
A security review commissioned by a Mahara user discovered that Mahara processes unsanitized input which can lead to cross-site scripting (XSS).
CVE-2011-0440
Mahara Developers discovered that Mahara doesn't check the session key under certain circumstances which can be exploited as cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and can lead to the deletion of blogs.
For the old stable distribution (lenny) these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.4-4+lenny8.
For the stable distribution (squeeze) these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.6-2+squeeze1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.7.
We recommend that you upgrade your mahara package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-0439, CVE-2011-0440 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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