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TITLE:
Fedora update for moodle

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33291

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33291/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for moodle. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable
system.

Input passed to the "pathname" parameter in filter/text/texed.php is
not properly sanitised before being used, which can be exploited to
inject and execute arbitrary shell commands.

Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2008-11577:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00955.html

http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack-moodle193/moodle193.txt

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