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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: USN-6825-1 Moderate: ADOdb XSS and SQL Injection

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Calendar Grey June 10, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Multiple security flaws found in ADOdb involve XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities that affected Ubuntu LTS versions.
Several security issues were fixed in ADOdb.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in ADOdb.

Software Description:

- libphp-adodb: ADOdb is a PHP database abstraction layer library

Details:

It was discovered that the PDO driver in ADOdb was incorrectly handling

string quotes. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to

perform SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

(CVE-2016-7405)

It was discovered that ADOdb was incorrectly handling GET parameters in

test.php. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute

cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu

16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-4855)

Emmet Leahy discovered that ADOdb was incorrectly handling string quotes

in PostgreSQL connections. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue

to bypass authentication. (CVE-2021-3850)

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Topics Covered

security advisory sql injection xss ubuntu authentication bypass libphp-adodb

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
libphp-adodb 5.20.19-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
libphp-adodb 5.20.16-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
libphp-adodb 5.20.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
libphp-adodb 5.20.3-1ubuntu1+esm1
Available with Ubuntu Pro

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6825-1

CVE-2016-4855, CVE-2016-7405, CVE-2021-3850

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6825-1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory sql injection xss ubuntu authentication bypass libphp-adodb

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libphp-adodb/5.20.19-1ubuntu0.1

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