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Fedora 26 : phpMyAdmin (2017-481515e199)

high Nessus Plugin ID 105512

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Upstream announcement :

Welcome to **phpMyAdmin 4.7.7**, a regular maintenance release containing bug fixes and a security fix.

The security vulnerability is a XSRF/CSRF flaw; you can read more at https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2017-9/ As a result of this, we recommend all users upgrade immediately. A CVE-ID has been requested but not yet assigned.

A complete list of new features and bugs that have been fixed is available in the ChangeLog file or changelog.php included with this release.

Notable changes since 4.7.6 :

 - Fixed displaying of formatted numeric values for some locales

 - Fixed PHP error when browsing certain results

There are several more improvements; please refer to the ChangeLog for full details.

Thanks to our sponsors for helping to make this work possible!

The phpMyAdmin Team

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-481515e199

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2017-9/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105512

File Name: fedora_2017-481515e199.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/2/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/2/2018

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