phpMyAdmin: Information disclosure A vulnerability in phpMyAdmin may lead to information disclosure. phpmyadmin May 05, 2008 May 05, 2008: 01 219005 remote 2.11.5.2 2.11.5.2

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser.

Cezary Tomczak reported that an undefined UploadDir variable exposes an information disclosure vulnerability when running on shared hosts.

A remote attacker with CREATE TABLE permissions can exploit this vulnerability via a specially crafted HTTP POST request in order to read arbitrary files.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All phpMyAdmin users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.11.5.2"
CVE-2008-1924 vorlon vorlon mfleming