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Fedora 28 : phpMyAdmin (2018-658eba5860)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120480

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Upstream announcement :

Welcome to **phpMyAdmin 4.8.0.1**, which fixes a security flaw found in phpMyAdmin.

This version fixes a security flaw found in version 4.8.0 where an attacker can manipulate a user in to following a specially crafted link, allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary SQL commands on the server. For more information, please see [PMASA-2018-2](https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2018-2/).

We recommend that all users upgrade.

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-2018-658eba5860

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120480

File Name: fedora_2018-658eba5860.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:28

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/27/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/27/2018

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