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Debian DSA-2172-1 : moodle - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52056

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Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpCAS, a CAS client library for PHP. The Moodle course management system includes a copy of phpCAS.

Solution

Upgrade the moodle packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.13-3.

The stable distribution (squeeze) already contains a fixed version of phpCAS.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2172

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52056

File Name: debian_DSA-2172.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/23/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:moodle, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/22/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2795, CVE-2010-2796, CVE-2010-3690, CVE-2010-3691, CVE-2010-3692

BID: 42160, 42162, 43585

DSA: 2172