Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1723-1 phpmyadmin -- insufficient input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 11 Feb 2009
- Affected Packages:
- phpmyadmin
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-5621.
- More information:
-
Michael Brooks discovered that phpMyAdmin, a tool to administrate MySQL over the web, performs insufficient input sanitising allowing a user assisted remote attacker to execute code on the webserver.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.9.1.1-10.
For the testing distribution (lenny) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.11.8.1-5.
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_2.9.1.1-10.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_2.9.1.1-10.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_2.9.1.1-10_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.