TITLE:
Dokeos File Inclusion Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19576

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19576/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Dokeos Community Release 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/9282/
Dokeos 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4508/

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Dokeos, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed to the "rootSys" parameter in
"claroline/exercice/testheaderpage.php" and the
"clarolineRepositorySys" parameter in
"claroline/resourcelinker/resourcelinker.inc.php" isn't properly
verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited
to include arbitrary files from external and local resources.

The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in Dokeos 1.6.3 and have also
been reported in prior versions. The vulnerabilities have also been
reported in Dokeos Community Release 2.0.2 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Update to Dokeos 1.6.4 / Dokeos Community Release 2.0.3.
http://www.dokeos.com/download.php

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
First found by unknown person and exploited in the wild. Then
reported to the vendor by vianney.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.dokeos.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6848
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Security

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