Debian DSA-1030-1 : moodle - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 22572

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in libphp-adodb, the 'adodb' database abstraction layer for PHP, which is embedded in moodle, a course management system for online learning. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2006-0146 Andreas Sandblad discovered that improper user input sanitisation results in a potential remote SQL injection vulnerability enabling an attacker to compromise applications, access or modify data, or exploit vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation. This requires the MySQL root password to be empty. It is fixed by limiting access to the script in question.

- CVE-2006-0147 A dynamic code evaluation vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP functions via the 'do' parameter.

- CVE-2006-0410 Andy Staudacher discovered a SQL injection vulnerability due to insufficient input sanitising that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands.

- CVE-2006-0806 GulfTech Security Research discovered multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities due to improper user-supplied input sanitisation. Attackers can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause arbitrary scripts to be executed in the browser of an unsuspecting user's machine, or result in the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials.

Solution

Upgrade the moodle package.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain moodle packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.4.dfsg.1-3sarge1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 22572

File Name: debian_DSA-1030.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:moodle, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0146, CVE-2006-0147, CVE-2006-0410, CVE-2006-0806

BID: 16187, 16364, 16720

CWE: 89

DSA: 1030

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