Fedora 25 : phpMyAdmin (2016-49e1e93a66)

high Nessus Plugin ID 94802

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

phpMyAdmin 4.6.4 (2016-08-16) =============================

This release includes many security fixes of various levels of severity. Upstream recommends all users upgrade to this release immediately. For full information on the vulnerabilities fixed and mitigation factors for users who are unable to upgrade, refer to the ChangeLog file included with this release and the security announcements at https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/

Aside from the security fixes, bugs have been fixed affecting :

- Create view when no view name specified

- Changing a password

- Fix deleting of users with non-English locales

- Fixed password change on MariaDB without auth plugin

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-2016-49e1e93a66

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 94802

File Name: fedora_2016-49e1e93a66.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/15/2016

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:25

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/6/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2016

Reference Information