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Fedora 24 phpMyAdmin 4.6.6 Major Security Patch Released Now Available

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Update to phpMyAdmin 4.6.6 to address vital security vulnerabilities and improvements. Important patches are ready for deployment.
Welcome to **phpMyAdmin 4.6.6**, a release containing security and bug fixes

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:

Welcome to **phpMyAdmin 4.6.6**, a release containing security and bug fixes. This release includes many security fixes of various levels of severity. We recommend all users upgrade to this release immediately. For full information on the vulnerabilities fixed and mitigation factors for users who are unable to upgrade, refer to the ChangeLog file included with this release and the security announcements at https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/ There have been changes in the behavior of previous version: * Changed the suggested text in the query window for delete queries to avoid accidental data loss * Re-introduce a page which shows the output of phpinfo() Aside from the changes and security improvements, many bugs have been fixed including: * Parsing of SQL queries with the BINARY function * Syntax error when adding or changing TIMESTAMP columns with default value as NULL * Broken "Edit" and "Export" links in the Routines tab * Creating a new user on older MariaDB servers * Form...

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1416000 - phpMyAdmin: DOS in replication status https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416000 [ 2 ] Bug #1415999 - phpMyAdmin: SSRF in replication https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1415999 [ 3 ] Bug #1415998 - phpMyAdmin: Cookie attribute injection attack https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1415998 [ 4 ] Bug #1415997 - phpMyAdmin: CSS injection in themes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1415997 [ 5 ] Bug #1415996 - phpMyAdmin: DOS vulnerabiltiy in table editing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1415996 [ 6 ] Bug #1415995 - phpMyAdmin: Open redirect https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1415995

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade phpMyAdmin' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: phpMyAdmin
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.6.6
Release: 1.fc24
Summary: Handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web

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