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Debian: DSA-1723-1 Critical: phpMyAdmin Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey February 11, 2009
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Improve the security of phpMyAdmin by tackling weak input validation that exposes you to remote code execution risks. Follow the Debian security announcement for best practices
Michael Brooks discovered that phpMyAdmin, a tool to administrate MySQL over the web, performs insufficient input sanitising allowing a user assisted remote attacker to execute cod...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
2.9.1.1-10.

For the testing distribution (lenny) and unstable distribution (sid), this
problem has been fixed in version 2.11.8.1-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpmyadmin package.

Upgrade instructions
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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
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1021 9428b84187a0fc1c893e099987f746f6
Size/MD5 checksum: 3500563 f598509b308bf96aee836eb2338f523c
Size/MD5 checksum: 54951 8441cbf454016d4425dddaef569bbd21

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 check...

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