Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1675-1 phpmyadmin -- insufficient input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 30 Nov 2008
- Affected Packages:
- phpmyadmin
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-4326.
- More information:
-
Masako Oono discovered that phpMyAdmin, a web-based administration interface for MySQL, insufficiently sanitises input allowing a remote attacker to gather sensitive data through cross site scripting, provided that the user uses the Internet Explorer web browser.
This update also fixes a regression introduced in DSA 1641, that broke changing of the language and encoding in the login screen.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 4:2.9.1.1-9.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4:2.11.8.1-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your phpmyadmin package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.9.1.1-9.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.9.1.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.9.1.1-9.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.9.1.1.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.9.1.1-9_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.
