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[SECURITY] [DSA 2206-1] New mahara packages fix several vulnerabilities
From: joey () infodrom org (Martin Schulze)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:02:25 +0200 (CEST)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 2206-1 security () debian org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze March 29th, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : mahara Vulnerability : several CVE IDs : CVE-2011-0439 CVE-2011-0440 Debian-specific: no 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. Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: [18]http://www.debian.org/security/ Mailing list: debian-security-announce () lists debian org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFNklbuW5ql+IAeqTIRAhZRAJ0cCEjrrHQLSCpRkSFmzaPxIQTSYACgkbgO Q39fgM7gZJVNSLXVFU2k2wA= =io3e -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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