Bug 730068 (CVE-2011-4295, CVE-2011-4296)

Summary: CVE-2011-4295 CVE-2011-4296 moodle: multiple flaws in 2.x < 2.0.4 (MSA-11-0021, MSA-11-0022)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
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Description Vincent Danen 2011-08-11 17:12:01 UTC
Two flaws were reported [1],[2] in moodle versions < 2.0.4 and < 2.1.1 (1.9.x is not affected):

moodle_enrol_external:role_assign() does not obey role assignment restrictions (MSA-11-0021)

The course creator role has incorrect default permissions (MSA-11-0022)

[1] http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=182738
[2] http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=182739

Recommend upgrading EPEL6 and Fedora 16/rawhide to 2.0.4.  Earlier versions of EPEL and Fedora have 1.9.x or 1.8.x and are not affected.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-08-11 17:13:31 UTC
Created moodle tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: epel-6 [bug 730070]
Affects: fedora-rawhide [bug 730071]

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2011-11-18 19:40:24 UTC
MSA-11-0021 was assigned CVE-2011-4295
MSA-11-0022 was assigned CVE-2011-4296

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2011-11-18 19:44:36 UTC
EPEL6 is currently at the fixed 2.1.2 version, as is rawhide.  F16 has 2.0.5 and is not vulnerable.