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Debian 4:2.9.1.1-6 Moderate: phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Scripting Issue

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2007
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Significant cross-site scripting vulnerability identified in phpMyAdmin addressed within Debian packages. Urgent update advised for enhanced security.
Omer Singer of the DigiTrust Group discovered several vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin, an application to administrate MySQL over the WWW

Summary


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
...

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