Fedora 8 : phpMyAdmin-2.11.2.2-1.fc8 (2007-3639)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 28310

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The login page (auth_type cookie) was vulnerable to XSS via the convcharset parameter (PMASA-2007-8).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected phpMyAdmin package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 28310

File Name: fedora_2007-3639.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 11/26/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/22/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5386, CVE-2007-5589, CVE-2007-5976, CVE-2007-5977

CWE: 79, 89

FEDORA: 2007-3639

Detections

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