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.
- CVE-2007-5589
- 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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.6.2-3sarge6.diff.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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.9.1.1-6.diff.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.