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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2206-1 (mahara)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to mahara announced via advisory DSA 2206-1.
Insight
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.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your mahara package.