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Debian: DSA-2097-1 Moderate: phpMyAdmin Input Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey August 29, 2010
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Explore Debian's DSA-2097-1 notification regarding phpMyAdmin updates addressing remote threats in MySQL management.
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin, a tool to administer MySQL over the web

Summary

CVE-2010-3055

The configuration setup script does not properly sanitise its output
file, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via
a crafted POST request. In Debian, the setup tool is protected through
Apache HTTP basic authentication by default.

CVE-2010-3056

Various cross site scripting issues have been discovered that allow
a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.11.8.1-5+lenny5.

For the testing (squeeze) and unstable distribution (sid), these problems
have been fixed in version 3.3.5.1-1.

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 c...

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