Advisories » MGASA-2015-0057

Updated moodle packages fix CVE-2015-1493

Publication date: 09 Feb 2015
Modification date: 09 Feb 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2015-1493

Description

Updated moodle package fixes security vulnerability:

In Moodle before 2.6.8, parameter "file" passed to scripts serving JS was not
always cleaned from including "../" in the path, allowing to read files
located outside of moodle directory. All OS's are affected, but especially
vulnerable are Windows servers (CVE-2015-1493).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15244
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=279956
• https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.6.8_release_notes
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=279502
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/09/5
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1493

SRPMS

4/core

• moodle-2.6.8-1.mga4