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Gentoo: 200503-07 Normal: phpMyAdmin Command Execution Issues

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Calendar Grey March 3, 2005
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phpMyAdmin on Gentoo is facing various vulnerabilities such as command execution flaws and cross-site scripting. It is advisable to perform an upgrade to enhance security measures.
phpMyAdmin contains multiple vulnerabilities that could lead to command execution, XSS issues and bypass of security restrictions.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-07 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: March 03, 2005 Bugs: #83190, #83792 ID: 200503-07

Synopsis ======= phpMyAdmin contains multiple vulnerabilities that could lead to command execution, XSS issues and bypass of security restrictions.
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_p2-r1 >= 2.6.1_p2-r1
========== phpMyAdmin contains several security issues:
* Maksymilian Arciemowicz has discovered mu...

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