Package : phpmyadmin
Vulnerability : several
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-3696 CVE-2009-3697
Debian Bug : 552194
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin, a tool
to administer MySQL over the web. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2009-3696
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability allows remote attackers to
inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted MySQL table name.
CVE-2009-3697
SQL injection vulnerability in the PDF schema generator functionality
allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands. This issue
does not apply to the version in Debian 4.0 Etch.
Additionally, extra fortification has been added for the web based setup.php script. Although the shipped web server configuration should ensure that
this script is protected, in practice this turned out not always to be the case. The config.inc.php file is not writable anymore by the webserver user anymore. See README.Debian for details on how to enable the setup.php
script if and when you need it.
For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.9.1.1-13.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.11.8.1-5+lenny3.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.2.2.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your phpmyadmin package.
Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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