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openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE-SU-2017:3448-1 Critical PhpMyAdmin Patch

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Calendar Grey December 29, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A crucial security patch for phpMyAdmin has been released to tackle significant vulnerabilities in openSUSE. Promptly applying this update is essential for maintaining system security.
An update that contains security fixes can now be installed

Description

This update for phpMyAdmin to version 4.7.7 fixes a security issue and

bugs.

The following vulnerability was fixed:

- By deceiving a user to click on a crafted URL, it was possible to

perform harmful database

operations (bsc#1074066, PMASA-2017-09)

This update also contains all upstream improvements and bugfixes in

version 4.7.7:

- various display and UI fixes

- PHP error fixes

- Improved deteciton of MySQL server needing SSL connections

- Support JSON datatype on MariaDB 10.2.7 and newer

- Fix constructing ALTER query with AFTER

- Fix changing password on MariaDB cluster

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Topics Covered

security advisory important database issue 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 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-1421=1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-1421=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

phpMyAdmin-4.7.7-6.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch):

phpMyAdmin-4.7.7-33.12.1

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1074066

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:3448-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 42.2 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory important database issue phpmyadmin openSUSE

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