Summary
The remote host is missing an update to mahara
announced via advisory DSA 2334-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202334-1
Insight
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 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.
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.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mahara packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-2771, CVE-2011-2772, CVE-2011-2773 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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