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Debian 4.0 DSA-1693-2 Critical Update for phpPgAdmin Remote Issues

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Calendar Grey January 21, 2009
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The latest Debian Security Notice DSA-1693-2 addresses a regression in the phpPgAdmin update, while detailing various security vulnerabilities that have been identified.
The security update for phpPgAdmin in DSA-1693-1 caused a regression in modifying table fields

Summary

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpPgAdmin, a tool
to administrate PostgreSQL database over the web. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2007-2865

    Cross-site scripting vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject
    arbitrary web script or HTML via the server parameter.

CVE-2007-5728

    Cross-site scripting vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject
    arbitrary web script or HTML via PHP_SELF.

CVE-2008-5587

    Directory traversal vulnerability allows remote attackers to read
    arbitrary files via _language parameter.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.0.1-3.1etch2.

We recommend that you upgrade your phppgadmin package.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
source...

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