-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1736-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Steffen Joeris March 10, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : mahara Vulnerability : insufficient input sanitising Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2009-0660 It was discovered that mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder, is prone to cross-site scripting attacks, which allows the injection of arbitrary Java or HTML code. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-4+lenny1. The oldstable distribution (etch) does not contain mahara. For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your mahara package. Upgrade instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny - -------------------------------- Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 1303 e78e2f84879067ead786f022b3fb9e65 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 38565 dab9ae59c86acc880749118e0c7fab20 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 2383079 cf1158e4fe3cdba14fb1b71657bf8cc9 Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1636658 52d68deb52604b9d5ae0ad910ef0ef78 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara-apache2_1.0.4-4+lenny1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 7778 9b1ddde46afd38972b0789e0c18e740a These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm2zjoACgkQXm3vHE4uylp99ACdGLxX5QiuHmIP5ugO8mvWtuXT HzcAoM0ifVwpizr87+vJt9XxqI8dLBPV =R8Rx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----