__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN phpMyAdmin Vulnerability [Debian Security Advisory DSA-1403-1] November 9, 2007 18:00 GMT Number S-048 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: There are several vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin, an application to adminstrate MySQL, over the WWW. PLATFORM: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) and 4.0 (etch) DAMAGE: May allow a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the context of a logged in user's session (cross site scripting). SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is LOW. May allow a remote attacker to inject ASSESSMENT: arbitrary web script or HTML in the context of a logged in user's session (cross site scripting). ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/s-048.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1403 CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2007-5589 CVE-2007-5386 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Debian Security Advisory DSA-1403-1 *****] Debian Security Advisory DSA-1403-1 phpmyadmin -- missing input sanitising Date Reported: 08 Nov 2007 Affected Packages: phpmyadmin Vulnerable: Yes Security database references: In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-5589, CVE-2007-5386. More information: Omer Singer of the DigiTrust Group discovered several vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin, an application to administrate MySQL over the WWW. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2007-5589 phpMyAdmin allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the context of a logged in user's session (cross site scripting). CVE-2007-5386 phpMyAdmin, when accessed by a browser that does not URL-encode requests, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string. For the old stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4:2.6.2-3sarge6. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 4:2.9.1.1-6. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4:2.11.1.2-1. We recommend that you upgrade your phpmyadmin package. Fixed in: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) Source: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.6.2-3sarge6.dsc http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.6.2-3sarge6.diff.gz http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.6.2.orig.tar.gz Architecture-independent component: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.6.2-3sarge6_all.deb Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) Source: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.9.1.1-6.dsc http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.9.1.1-6.diff.gz http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.9.1.1.orig.tar.gz Architecture-independent component: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.9.1.1-6_all.deb MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory. 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