Ubuntu 9.04 : moodle vulnerability (USN-791-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39517

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Christian Eibl discovered that the TeX filter in Moodle allowed any function to be used. An authenticated remote attacker could post a specially crafted TeX formula to execute arbitrary TeX functions, potentially reading any file accessible to the web server user, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2009-1171, MSA-09-0009).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/791-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39517

File Name: ubuntu_USN-791-2.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/25/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:moodle, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/24/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1171

CWE: 20

USN: 791-2