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Fedora 29 : phpMyAdmin (2018-088802878a)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120221

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Upstream announcement :

The phpMyAdmin team is pleased to announce the release of **phpMyAdmin version 4.8.4**. Among other bug fixes, this contains several important security fixes.

The security fixes involve :

 - Local file inclusion (https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2018-6/),

 - XSRF/CSRF vulnerabilities allowing a specially crafted URL to perform harmful operations (https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2018-7/), and

 - an XSS vulnerability in the navigation tree (https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2018-8/)

In addition to the security fixes, this release also includes these bug fixes and more as part of our regular release cycle :

 - Issue with changing theme

 - Ensure that database names with a dot ('.') are handled properly when DisableIS is true

 - Fix for message 'Error while copying database (pma__column_info)'

 - Move operation causes 'SELECT * FROM `undefined`' error

 - When logging with $cfg['AuthLog'] to syslog, successful login messages were not logged when $cfg['AuthLogSuccess'] was true

 - Multiple errors and regressions with Designer

And several more. Complete notes are in the ChangeLog file included with this release.

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-2018-088802878a

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2018-7/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120221

File Name: fedora_2018-088802878a.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/21/2018

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