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TITLE:
Fedora update for moodle

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33639

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33639/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora 9
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/18642/

DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for moodle. This fixes some security
issues, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform
certain actions with escalated privileges.

The security issues are caused due to the
lib/editor/htmlarea/plugins/SpellChecker/spell-check-logic.cgi script
creating temporary files in an insecure manner, which can be exploited
to e.g. overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages using the yum utility ("yum update moodle").

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2009-0814:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00794.html

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