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Debian 4.0: DSA-1675-1 Critical: phpMyAdmin Cross Site Scripting Issue

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Calendar Grey November 30, 2008
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Debian Security Notice DSA-1675-2: Critical upgrade for phpMyAdmin addressing input validation vulnerabilities that could lead to remote attacks.
Masako Oono discovered that phpMyAdmin, a web-based administration interface for MySQL, insufficiently sanitises input allowing a remote attacker to gather sensitive data through...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 4:2.9.1.1-9.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4:2.11.8.1-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpmyadmin 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
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

Size/MD5 checksum: 1019 b751c9769e198e656e7b982ec8bc4fc9
Size/MD5 checksum: 3500563 f598509b308bf96aee836eb2338f523c
Size/MD5 checksum: 54647 fee9d9989bd7e53fbe5f5308078cc68d

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: ...

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