PT-2012-1853 · Moodle · Moodle

Xavier Paz · CVE-2011-4305 · Published 2012-07-11 · Updated 2023-02-13

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions 1.9.x through 1.9.13

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite request loop. This is achieved by specifying a zero wait time for message refreshing in the message/refresh.php file.

Recommendations For Moodle versions 1.9.x through 1.9.13, update to version 1.9.14 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4305

DSA-2338-1

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4305 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747444 · Patch
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=188318 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4305 · Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97f258fabb3ebfa7acc7c02cb59de92b01710f99 · Note