gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200510-16.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200510-16">
  <title>phpMyAdmin: Local file inclusion vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    phpMyAdmin contains a local file inclusion vulnerability that may lead to
    the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">phpmyadmin</product>
  <announced>October 17, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>108939</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-db/phpmyadmin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.6.4_p2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.6.4_p2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the
    administration of MySQL over the web.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Maksymilian Arciemowicz reported that in
    libraries/grab_globals.lib.php, the $__redirect parameter was not
    correctly validated. Systems running PHP in safe mode are not affected.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker may exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious
    requests, causing the execution of arbitrary code with the rights of
    the user running the web server.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    Run PHP in safe mode.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All phpMyAdmin users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.6.4_p2&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2005-4">PMASA-2005-4</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3299">CVE-2005-3299</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 15 Oct 2005 08:08:40 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:41:39 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:54:58 +0000">
    adir
  </metadata>
</glsa>