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Gentoo: GLSA-200510-16 Normal: phpMyAdmin Local Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey October 17, 2005
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The Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-16 warns of a serious phpMyAdmin vulnerability related to local file inclusion (LFI), enabling code execution risk
phpMyAdmin contains a local file inclusion vulnerability that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-16 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: phpMyAdmin: Local file inclusion vulnerability Date: October 17, 2005 Bugs: #108939 ID: 200510-16

Synopsis ======= phpMyAdmin contains a local file inclusion vulnerability that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the web.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-db/phpmyadmin < 2.6.4_p2 >= 2.6.4_p2
========== Maksymilian Arciemowicz reported that in libraries/grab_globals.lib.php, the $__redirect parameter was not correctly valida...

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