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Gentoo GLSA-200412-19 High: phpMyAdmin Command Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey December 19, 2004
Scroller Gentoo
Uncover critical security flaws in phpMyAdmin relevant to Gentoo systems. Provides fixes and advisory information.
phpMyAdmin contains multiple vulnerabilities which could lead to file disclosure or command execution.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-19 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: December 19, 2004 Bugs: #74303 ID: 200412-19

Synopsis ======= phpMyAdmin contains multiple vulnerabilities which could lead to file disclosure or command execution.
Background ========= phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-db/phpmyadmin < 2.6.1_rc1 >= 2.6.1_rc1
========== Nicolas Gregoire (exaprobe.com) has discovered two vulnerabilities that exist only on a webserver where PHP safe_mode is off. The...

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