Fedora 25: phpMyAdmin Security Update 2017-360e912fdb
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 * Format button in the SQL tab broken * Fixes for PHP 7.1 * Problems with MySQL servers running with `lower_case_names=2` * Fixes for several PHP notices/warnings being shown And many more. Please see the ChangeLog for full details of bugs fixes.
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
