Fedora 8 : phpMyAdmin-2.11.8.1-1.fc8 (2008-6810)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33765

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update solves PMASA-2008-6 (phpMyAdmin security announcement) from 2008-07-28: Cross-site Framing; XSS in setup.php; see http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2008-6 - [interface] Table list pagination in navi - [profiling] Profiling causes query to be executed again (really causes a problem in case of INSERT/UPDATE) - [import] SQL file import very slow on Windows - [XHTML] problem with tabindex and radio fields - [interface] tabindex not set correctly - [views] VIEW name created via the GUI was not protected with backquotes - [interface] Deleting multiple views (space in name) - [parser] SQL parser removes essential space - [export] CSV for MS Excel incorrect escaping of double quotes - [interface] Font size option problem when no config file - [relation] Relationship view should check for changes - [history] Do not save too big queries in history - [security] Do not show version info on login screen - [import] Potential data loss on import resubmit - [export] Safari and timedate - [import, export] Import/Export fails because of Mac files - [security] protection against cross- frame scripting and new directive AllowThirdPartyFraming - [security] possible XSS during setup - [interface] revert language changing problem introduced with 2.11.7.1 phpMyAdmin 2.11.8.1 is a bugfix-only version containing normal bug fixes and two security fixes. This version is identical to 2.11.8, except it includes a fix for a notice about 'lang'.

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-2008-6/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456637

http://www.nessus.org/u?91edff2b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33765

File Name: fedora_2008-6810.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/31/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3456, CVE-2008-3457

BID: 30420

CWE: 59, 79

FEDORA: 2008-6810