Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
Description
Changes for 3.4.3.1 (2011-06-07)
- [PMASA-2011-5] Possible session manipulation in Swekey authentication (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011
-5.php)
- [PMASA-2011-6] Possible code injection in setup script in case session variables are compromised (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20 11-6.php)
- [PMASA-2011-7] Regular expression quoting issue in Synchronize code (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20 11-7.php)
- [PMASA-2011-8] Possible directory traversal (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20 11-8.php)
Changes for 3.4.3.0 (2011-06-27)
- [sync] Missing helper icons in Synchronize
- [setup] Redefine a lable that was wrong
- [parser] master is not a reserved word
- [edit] Inline edit updates multiple duplicate rows
- [edit] Inline edit does not escape backslashes
- [interface] Columns class sometimes changed for nothing
- [interface] Some tooltips do not disappear
- [search] Fix search in non unicode tables
- [display] Inline query edit broken
- [privileges] Generate password option missing on new accounts
- [edit] Inline edit places HTML line breaks in edit area
- [interface] Inline query edit does not escape special characters
- [security] minor XSS (require a valid token)
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.
Plugin Details
File Name: fedora_2011-9144.nasl
Agent: unix
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2011
Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2011
Exploitable With
Elliot (Phpmyadmin 3.x RCE)