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Gentoo: 202305-20 Minor Risk SQL Vulnerability In PhpMyAdmin

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Calendar Grey March 9, 2008
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Enhance phpMyAdmin to address a minor SQL injection vulnerability in Gentoo. Discover additional details about this security advisory and its corresponding fixes.
A SQL injection vulnerability has been discovered in phpMyAdmin.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200803-15
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Low
     Title: phpMyAdmin: SQL injection vulnerability
      Date: March 09, 2008
      Bugs: #212000
        ID: 200803-15


Synopsis
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A SQL injection vulnerability has been discovered in phpMyAdmin.

Background
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phpMyAdmin is a free web-based database administration tool.

Affected packages
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     Package            /  Vulnerable  /                    Unaffected
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  1  dev-db/phpmyadmin      < 2.11.5                         >= 2.11.5

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Richard Cunningham reported that phpMyAdmin uses the $_REQUEST variable
of $_GET and $_POST as a source for its parameters.

Impact
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An attacker could entice a user to v...
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