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Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-3283 (moodle)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-3283 2009-04-02 16:30:10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : moodle Product : Fedora 9 Version : 1.9.4 Release : 6.fc9 URL : http://moodle.org/ Summary : A Course Management System Description : Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: CVE-2009-1171: The TeX filter in Moodle 1.6 before 1.6.9+, 1.7 before 1.7.7+, 1.8 before 1.8.9, and 1.9 before 1.9.5 allows user-assisted attackers to read arbitrary files via an input command in a "$$" sequence, which causes LaTeX to include the contents of the file. Upstream bug and CVS commit: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-18552 http://cvs.moodle.org/moodle/filter/tex/filter.php?r1=1.1... References: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/502231/1... http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34278 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8297 Upstream further reported that the above patch is not sufficient and following change should be used instead: For >=1.9.0: http://git.catalyst.net.nz/gw?p= moodle-r2.git;a=commitdiff;h=b950f126018a9e16a298d278375a0eedf791e5dd For 1.6.* - 1.8.*: http://git.catalyst.net.nz/gw?p=moodle-r2.git;a=commitdiff;... bf1486e7ea9e8cda1e4522b96e07245459a0d -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Apr 1 2009 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 1.9.4-6 - Patch for CVE-2009-1171, BZ 493109. * Tue Mar 24 2009 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 1.9.4-5 - Update for freefont->gnu-free-fonts change. * Thu Feb 26 2009 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 1.9.4-4 - Fix for symlink dir replacement. * Mon Feb 23 2009 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 1.9.4-2 - Putting back bundled MagpieRSS due to incompatibility, BZ 486777. - Corrected moodle-cron. * Tue Feb 10 2009 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 1.9.4-1 - Update to 1.9.4 to fix CVE-2009-0499,0500,0501,0502. * Tue Jan 27 2009 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 1.9.3-6 - Dropped and symlinked to khmeros-base-fonts. * Tue Jan 20 2009 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 1.9.3-5 - Dropped and symlinked illegal sm and to fonts. - Symlinking to FreeSans. - Drop spell-check-logic.cgi, CVE-2008-5153, per upstream, BZ 472117, 472119, 472120. * Wed Dec 17 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 1.9.3-4 - Texed fix, BZ 476709. * Fri Nov 7 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 1.9.3-3 - Moved to weekly downloaded 11/7/08 to fix Snoopy CVE-2008-4796. * Fri Oct 31 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 1.9.3-2 - Fix for BZ 468929, overactive cron job. * Wed Oct 22 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 1.9.3-1 - Updated to 1.9.3. - Updated language packs to 22 Oct 2008 versions. * Wed Aug 6 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 1.9.2-2 - Remove bundled adodb, use system php-adodb. BZ 457886. - Remove bundled magpie, use system php-magpierss. BZ 457886. * Wed Aug 6 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 1.9.2-1 - Updated to 1.9.2. - Remove bundled Smarty, use system php-Smarty. BZ 457886. - Updated language packs to 06 Aug 2008 versions. * Mon Jun 23 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 1.9.1-2 - Add php Requires, BZ 452341. * Thu May 22 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb@jcomserv.net> - 1.9.1-1 - Update to 1.9.1. - Updated language packs to 22 May 2008 versions. - Added Welsh, Uzbek support. - Added php-xmlrpc Requires. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #493109 - CVE-2009-1171 moodle: file disclosure flaw in TeX filter https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493109 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update moodle' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann... (Log in to post comments)
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