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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2015-15384 critical: phpMyAdmin reCaptcha Bypass

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A critical patch for phpMyAdmin on Fedora tackles vulnerabilities involving reCaptcha workarounds, while also bolstering database administration features.
phpMyAdmin 4.4.14.1 (2015-09-08) reCaptcha bypass

Summary

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of

MySQL over the World Wide Web. Most frequently used operations are supported

by the user interface (managing databases, tables, fields, relations, indexes,

users, permissions), while you still have the ability to directly execute any

SQL statement.

Features include an intuitive web interface, support for most MySQL features

(browse and drop databases, tables, views, fields and indexes, create, copy,

drop, rename and alter databases, tables, fields and indexes, maintenance

server, databases and tables, with proposals on server configuration, execute,

edit and bookmark any SQL-statement, even batch-queries, manage MySQL usersand privileges, manage stored procedures and triggers), import data from CSV

and SQL, export data to various formats: CSV, SQL, XML, PDF, OpenDocument Text

and Spreadsheet, Word, Excel, LATEX and others, administering multiple servers,

creating PDF graphics of your database layout, creating complex queries using

Query-by-example (QBE), searching globally in a database or a subset of it,

transforming stored data into any format using a set of predefined functions,

like displaying BLOB-data as image or download-link and much more...

Update Information:

phpMyAdmin 4.4.14.1 (2015-09-08) ================================ - [security] reCaptcha bypass

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1261813 - CVE-2015-6830 phpMyAdmin: Bypassing the reCaptcha test https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261813

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update phpMyAdmin' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: phpMyAdmin
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 4.4.14.1
Release: 1.fc23
Summary: Handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web

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