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Fedora 27: a1650ed14f moderate: phpMyAdmin Self-XSS Threat

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Calendar Grey February 26, 2018
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An important security fix for Fedora 27 resolves a self-XSS vulnerability in phpMyAdmin version 4.7.8. Promptly updating is advised.
From upstream announcement: **Security fix: phpMyAdmin 4.7.8 is released** Welcome to phpMyAdmin 4.7.8, a security releaes also containing regular maintenance bug fixes

Summary

Translation API for PHP using Gettext MO files.

Features

* All strings are stored in memory for fast lookup

* Fast loading of MO files

* Low level API for reading MO files

* Emulation of Gettext API

* No use of eval() for plural equation

Limitations

* Not suitable for huge MO files which you don't want to store in memory

* Input and output encoding has to match (preferably UTF-8)

Autoloader: /usr/share/php/PhpMyAdmin/MoTranslator/autoload.php

From upstream announcement: **Security fix: phpMyAdmin 4.7.8 is released**

Welcome to phpMyAdmin 4.7.8, a security releaes also containing regular

maintenance bug fixes. The security fix relates to a self-XSS vulnerability in

the central columns feature that is reported as PMASA-2018-1

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2018-1/. Thanks to Mayur Udiniya

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayur-udiniya-09247b129/ for finding and responsibly

disclosing this flaw. We recommend all users upgrade to resolve this security

problem. A complete list of new features and bugs that have been fixed is

available in the ChangeLog file or changelog.php included with this release.

Notable changes since 4.7.7: * Fixed error handling with PHP 7.2 * Fixed

resetting default setting values * Fixed fallback value for collation

connection Additionally, there have been continuous improvements to many of the

translations. If you don't see your language or find a problem, you can

contribute too; see https://www.phpmyadmin.net/translate/ for details.

[ 1 ] Bug #1547748 - CVE-2018-7260 phpMyAdmin: XSS in db_central_columns.php

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547748

su -c 'dnf upgrade php-phpmyadmin-motranslator' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 27
Version: 4.0
Release: 1.fc27
Summary: Translation API for PHP using Gettext MO files

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