Fedora 9 : moodle-1.9.4-6.fc9 (2009-3283)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36077

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

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=1.18.4.4&r2=1.18 .4.5

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected moodle package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36077

File Name: fedora_2009-3283.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 4/3/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:moodle, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1171

BID: 34278

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2009-3283

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