Gentoo: GLSA-202310-15 Critical: MySQL Remote Access Vulnerability

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-14 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: phpMyAdmin: Vulnerability in MIME-based transformation system Date: October 18, 2004 Bugs: #67409 ID: 200410-14

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability has been found in the MIME-based transformation system of phpMyAdmin, which may allow remote execution of arbitrary commands if PHP's "safe mode" is disabled.
Background ========= phpMyAdmin is a popular web-based MySQL administration tool written in PHP. It allows users to browse and administer a MySQL database from a web-browser. Transformations are a phpMyAdmin feature allowing plug-ins to rewrite the contents of any column seen in phpMyAdmin's Browsing mode, including using insertion of PHP or JavaScript code.
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