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×Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200504-30
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: phpMyAdmin: Insecure SQL script installation
Date: April 30, 2005
Bugs: #88831
ID: 200504-30
Synopsis
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phpMyAdmin leaves the SQL install script with insecure permissions,
potentially leading to a database compromise.
Background
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phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the
administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser. phpMyAdmin uses a
pma MySQL user to control the linked-tables infrastructure. The SQL
install script sets the initial password for the pma user.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-db/phpmyadmin < 2.6.2-r1 ...
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