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Debian: DSA-2286-1 Moderate: Remote Exploits In phpMyAdmin

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2011
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Various security flaws detected in phpMyAdmin necessitate urgent updates to bolster protection and avert potential remote attacks.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in phpMyAdmin, a tool to administrate MySQL over the web

Summary

CVE-2011-2505

Possible session manipulation in Swekey authentication.

CVE-2011-2506

Possible code injection in setup script, in case session
variables are compromised.

CVE-2011-2507

Regular expression quoting issue in Synchronize code.

CVE-2011-2508

Possible directory traversal in MIME-type transformation.

CVE-2011-2642

Cross site scripting in table Print view when the attacker can
create crafted table names.

No CVE name yet

Possible superglobal and local variables manipulation in
Swekey authentication. (PMASA-2011-12)

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is only affected by CVE-2011-2642,
which has been fixed in version 2.11.8.1-5+lenny9.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed
in version 3.3.7-6.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid),
these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.3.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpymadmin packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
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Package: phpymadmin
CVE ID: CVE-2011-2505 CVE-2011-2506 CVE-2011-2507

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