Fedora 8 : phpMyAdmin-2.11.5.1-1.fc8 (2008-2825)

low Nessus Plugin ID 31745

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update addresses PMASA-2008-2 / CVE-2008-1567: phpMyAdmin upstream received an advisory from Jim Hermann: It saves sensitive information like the MySQL username and password and the Blowfish secret key in session data, which might be unprotected on a shared host.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2008-2

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected phpMyAdmin package.

See Also

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2008-2/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439974

http://www.nessus.org/u?9bdc6a91

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 31745

File Name: fedora_2008-2825.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/4/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 4/1/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1567

CWE: 200

FEDORA: 2008-2825