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openSUSE Leap 42.1: 2016:2168-1 Important: phpMyAdmin Threats

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Calendar Grey August 29, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Crucial patch release for phpMyAdmin addresses 28 vulnerabilities in openSUSE. Update today to protect your environment.
An update that fixes 28 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

phpMyAdmin was updated to version 4.4.15.8 (2016-08-16) to fix the

following issues:

- Upstream changelog for 4.4.15.8:

* Improve session cookie code for openid.php and signon.php example files

* Full path disclosure in openid.php and signon.php example files

* Unsafe generation of BlowfishSecret (when not supplied by the user)

* Referrer leak when phpinfo is enabled

* Use HTTPS for wiki links

* Improve SSL certificate handling

* Fix full path disclosure in debugging code

* Administrators could trigger SQL injection attack against users - other fixes

* Remove Swekey support

- Security fixes: https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/

* Weaknesses with cookie encryption see PMASA-2016-29 (CVE-2016-6606,

CWE-661)

* Multiple XSS vulnerabilities see PMASA-2016-30 (CVE-2016-6607, CWE-661)

* Multiple XSS vulnerabilities see PMASA-2016-31 (CVE-2016-6608, CWE-661)

* PHP code injection see PMASA-2016-32...

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Topics Covered

security advisory update XSS DoS important phpMyAdmin openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1021=1

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1021=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.8-25.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (noarch):

phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.8-39.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6606.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6607.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6608.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6609.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6610.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6611.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6612.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6613.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6614.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6615.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6616.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6617.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6618.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6619.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6620.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6621.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6622.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6623.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6624.html

https://www....

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:2168-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 openSUSE 13.2 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory update XSS DoS important phpMyAdmin openSUSE

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