DSA-1723-1 phpmyadmin -- insufficient input sanitising

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

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.