Debian: New phpmyadmin packages fix cross-site scripting
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 1403-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst November 8th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : phpmyadmin Vulnerability : missing input sanitising Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2007-5589 CVE-2007-5386 Omer Singer of the DigiTrust Group discovered several vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin, an application to administrate MySQL over the WWW. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2007-5589 phpMyAdmin allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the context of a logged in user's session (cross site scripting). CVE-2007-5386 phpMyAdmin, when accessed by a browser that does not URL-encode requests, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string. For the old stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4:2.6.2-3sarge6. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 4:2.9.1.1-6. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4:2.11.1.2-1. We recommend that you upgrade your phpmyadmin package. Upgrade Instructions - --------------------wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 896 6f8e63669094450f8450a808deacff73 Size/MD5 checksum: 42524 14903fdbe6383e4fa6934e4b955851ec Size/MD5 checksum: 2654418 05e33121984824c43d94450af3edf267 Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 2770320 b1cfa31fcc29881a78269f38de1387c6 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - ------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 1011 130531a7ffe3fd67421985abc0d7e3c1 Size/MD5 checksum: 49749 0ea3fc9730fb32d1587e0757d3fbee25 Size/MD5 checksum: 3500563 f598509b308bf96aee836eb2338f523c Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 3606276 be23322772089af7b429c01b65fe1469 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org