[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200805-02 ] phpMyAdmin: Information disclosure

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200805-02

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http://security.gentoo.org/

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Severity: Low

Title: phpMyAdmin: Information disclosure

Date: May 05, 2008

Bugs: #219005

ID: 200805-02

 

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Synopsis

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A vulnerability in phpMyAdmin may lead to information disclosure.

 

Background

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phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the

administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 dev-db/phpmyadmin < 2.11.5.2 >= 2.11.5.2

 

Description

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Cezary Tomczak reported that an undefined UploadDir variable exposes an

information disclosure vulnerability when running on shared hosts.

 

Impact

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A remote attacker with CREATE TABLE permissions can exploit this

vulnerability via a specially crafted HTTP POST request in order to

read arbitrary files.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All phpMyAdmin users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.11.5.2"

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-1924

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1924

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-02.xml

 

Concerns?

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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

http://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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