Secunia Security Advisory - Debian has issued an update for moodle. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges, disclose sensitive information, and hijack another user's session and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Debian update for moodle
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA43427
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-03-02
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DESCRIPTION:
Debian has issued an update for moodle. This fixes multiple
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious users to perform
certain actions with escalated privileges, disclose sensitive
information, and hijack another user's session and by malicious
people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
For more information:
SA40845
SA41655
SOLUTION:
Install updated packages via the apt-get package manager.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
DSA-2172-1:
https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2172
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