Debian Security Advisory

DSA-759-1 phppgadmin -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

18 Jul 2005

Affected Packages:

phppgadmin

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 14142.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2256.

More information:

A vulnerability has been discovered in phppgadmin, a set of PHP scripts to administrate PostgreSQL over the WWW, that can lead to disclose sensitive information. Successful exploitation requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.2-5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.4.

We recommend that you upgrade your phppgadmin package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phppgadmin/phppgadmin_3.5.2-5.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phppgadmin/phppgadmin_3.5.2-5.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phppgadmin/phppgadmin_3.5.2.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phppgadmin/phppgadmin_3.5.2-5_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.