Bug 580100 (CVE-2010-1238)

Summary:	CVE-2010-1238 MoinMoin textcha bypass flaw
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	vpvainio
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Description Josh Bressers 2010-04-07 13:47:00 UTC

Name: CVE-2010-1238
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1238
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Assigned: 20100405
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Reference: DEBIAN:DSA-2024
Reference: URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2024

MoinMoin 1.7.1 allows remote attackers to bypass the textcha
protection mechanism by modifying the textcha-question and
textcha-answer fields to have empty values.

Upstream fix:
http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.7/rev/a952d07dea69

Comment 1 Ville-Pekka Vainio 2010-04-07 14:27:46 UTC

This doesn't affect the Fedora packages. The fix has been made over one and a half years ago and has since made its way into the 1.8 and 1.9 releases, which are currently in Fedora 11 - 13. It seems the only reason this vulnerability got a CVE identifier now is that Debian stable uses such an old version of Moin.

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2010-04-07 15:54:15 UTC

Thanks for the quick response. I'm going to close this bug then.