1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-658-1

USN-658-1: Moodle vulnerability

Publication date

23 October 2008

Overview

Moodle vulnerability

Releases

Packages

Details

Lukasz Pilorz discovered that the HTML filtering used in Moodle was not
strict enough. A remote attacker could send malicious requests to Moodle
and execute arbitrary code as the web server user.

Lukasz Pilorz discovered that the HTML filtering used in Moodle was not
strict enough. A remote attacker could send malicious requests to Moodle
and execute arbitrary code as the web server user.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
8.04 hardy moodle –  1.8.2-1ubuntu4.1
7.10 gutsy moodle –  1.8.2-1ubuntu2.1

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