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Fedora 15 : phpMyAdmin-3.4.8-1.fc15 (2011-16786)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57327

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Changes for 3.4.8.0 (2011-12-01) :

 - [interface] enum data split at space char (more space to edit)

 - [interface] ENUM/SET editor can't handle commas in values

 - [interface] no links to browse/empty views and tables

 - [interface] Deleted search results remain visible

 - [import] ODS import ignores memory limits

 - [interface] Visual column separation

 - [parser] TRUE not recognized by parser

 - [config] Make location of php-gettext configurable

 - [import] Handle conflicts in some open_basedir situations

 - [display] Dropdown results - setting NULL does not work

 - [edit] Inline edit on multi-server configuration

 - [core] Notice: Array to string conversion in PHP 5.4

 - [interface] When ShowTooltipAliasTB is true, VIEW is wrongly shown as the view name in main panel db Structure page

 - [core] Fail to synchronize column with name of keyword

 - [interface] Add column after drop

 - [interface] Avoid showing the password in phpinfo()'s output

 - [GUI] 'newer version of phpMyAdmin' message not shown in IE8

 - [interface] Entering the key through a lookup window does not reset NULL

 - [security] Self-XSS on database names (synchronize, operations/rename), see PMASA-2011-18 (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20 11-18.php)

 - [security] Self-XSS on column type (create index, table Search), see PMASA-2011-18 (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20 11-18.php)

 - [security] Self-XSS on invalid query (table overview), see PMASA-2011-18 (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20 11-18.php)

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-2011-18/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767666

http://www.nessus.org/u?52702558

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57327

File Name: fedora_2011-16786.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/19/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4634

FEDORA: 2011-16786