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USN-791-2: Moodle vulnerability

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USN-791-2: Moodle vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
03/30/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

The TeX filter in Moodle 1.6 before 1.6.9+, 1.7 before 1.7.7+, 1.8 before 1.8.9, and 1.9 before 1.9.5 allows user-assisted attackers to read arbitrary files via an input command in a "$$" sequence, which causes LaTeX to include the contents of the file.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-moodle

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