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Debian DSA-759-1 : phppgadmin - missing input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19221

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in phppgadmin, a set of PHP scripts to administrate PostgreSQL over the WWW, that can lead to disclose sensitive information. Successful exploitation requires that 'magic_quotes_gpc' is disabled.

Solution

Upgrade the phppgadmin package.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.2-5.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-759

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19221

File Name: debian_DSA-759.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/18/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:phppgadmin, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/4/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2256

BID: 14142

DSA: 759