[Secure-testing-team] Bug#727552: mahara: CVE-2013-4431: Not checking ownership of blocks before editing them

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Package: mahara
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream patch fixed-upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for mahara.

CVE-2013-4431[0]:
Not checking ownership of blocks before editing them

See upstream bugreport[1] which also contain a patch for the 1.5
branch[2].

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4431
    http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4431
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1233500
[2] https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mahara-release/mahara/1.5_STABLE/revision/5542

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore