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Fedora 23: 2016-65da02b95c Moderate XSS Fixes in phpMyAdmin

fedora
Calendar Grey March 9, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora's phpMyAdmin enhancement addresses vulnerabilities linked to XSS and man-in-the-middle attacks. Explore the revisions and improvements.
phpMyAdmin 4.5.5.1 (2016-02-29) fixes multiple XSS vulnerabilities, please see PMASA-2016-10, PMASA-2016-11, and PMASA-2016-12 for details; additionally it fixes a vulnerability al...

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 4.5.5.1 (2016-02-29) =============================== This release fixes multiple XSS vulnerabilities, please see PMASA-2016-10, PMASA-2016-11, and PMASA-2016-12 for details; additionally it fixes a vulnerability allowing man- in-the-middle attack on an API call to GitHub, see PMASA-2016-13 for details. It also inclues fixes for the following bugs: - issue #11971 CREATE UNIQUE INDEX index type is not recognized by parser. - issue #11982 Row count wrong when grouping joined tables. - issue #12012 Column definition with default value and comment in CREATE TABLE exported faulty. - issue #12020 New statement but no delimiter and unexpected token with REPLACE. - issue #12029 Fixed incorrect usage of SQL parser context in SQL export - issue #12048 Fixed inclusion of gettext library from SQL parser

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1313696 - CVE-2016-2562 phpMyAdmin: man-in-the-middle attack on API call to GitHub (PMASA-2016-13) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313696 [ 2 ] Bug #1313695 - CVE-2016-2559 phpMyAdmin: XSS vulnerability in SQL parser (PMASA-2016-10) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313695 [ 3 ] Bug #1313224 - CVE-2016-2561 phpMyAdmin: multiple XSS vulnerabilities (PMASA-2016-12) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313224 [ 4 ] Bug #1313221 - CVE-2016-2560 phpMyAdmin: multiple XSS vulnerabilities (PMASA-2016-11) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313221

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 .

Name: phpMyAdmin
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 4.5.5.1
Release: 1.fc23
Summary: Handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web

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