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Dokeos File Inclusion Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA19576  
Release Date: 2006-04-11
Last Update: 2006-05-11

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Dokeos 1.x
Dokeos Community Release 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-2286 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Dokeos, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed to the "rootSys" parameter in "claroline/exercice/testheaderpage.php" and the "clarolineRepositorySys" parameter in "claroline/resourcelinker/resourcelinker.inc.php" isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from external and local resources.

The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in Dokeos 1.6.3 and have also been reported in prior versions. The vulnerabilities have also been reported in Dokeos Community Release 2.0.2 and prior.

Solution:
Update to Dokeos 1.6.4 / Dokeos Community Release 2.0.3.
http://www.dokeos.com/download.php

Provided and/or discovered by:
First found by unknown person and exploited in the wild. Then reported to the vendor by vianney.

Changelog:
2006-05-11: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.dokeos.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6848
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Security



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