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Debian: DSA-1557-1 Critical: phpMyAdmin Insufficient Input Sanitising

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Calendar Grey April 24, 2008
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1559-1 highlights potential remote threats associated with OpenVPN and outlines crucial patches for various security flaws.
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin, an application to administrate MySQL over the WWW

Summary


Attackers with CREATE table permissions were allowed to read
arbitrary files readable by the webserver via a crafted
HTTP POST request.

CVE-2008-1567

The PHP session data file stored the username and password of
a logged in user, which in some setups can be read by a local
user.

CVE-2008-1149

Cross site scripting and SQL injection were possible by attackers
that had permission to create cookies in the same cookie domain
as phpMyAdmin runs in.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 4:2.9.1.1-7.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4:2.11.5.2-1.

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
wi...

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