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Gentoo: GLSA-200712-05 Normal: PEAR::MDB2 Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey December 9, 2007
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A PYTHON::PANDAS flaw could leak private information to external threats. Impacted individuals should update immediately.
A vulnerability when handling database input in PEAR::MDB2 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200712-05 https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: PEAR::MDB2: Information disclosure
      Date: December 09, 2007
      Bugs: #198446
        ID: 200712-05


Synopsis
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A vulnerability when handling database input in PEAR::MDB2 allows
remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Background
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PEAR::MDB2 is a database abstraction layer for PHP aimed to provide a
common API for all supported relational database management systems. A
LOB ("large object") is a database field holding binary data.

Affected packages
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