Debian DSA-1557-1 : phpmyadmin - insufficient input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 32058

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin, an application to administrate MySQL over the WWW. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2008-1924 Attackers with CREATE table permissions were allowed to read arbitrary files readable by the webserver via a crafted HTTP POST request.

- CVE-2008-1567 The PHP session data file stored the username and password of a logged in user, which in some setups can be read by a local user.

- CVE-2008-1149 Cross site scripting and SQL injection were possible by attackers that had permission to create cookies in the same cookie domain as phpMyAdmin runs in.

Solution

Upgrade the phpmyadmin package.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 4:2.9.1.1-7.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 32058

File Name: debian_DSA-1557.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/28/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1149, CVE-2008-1567, CVE-2008-1924

BID: 28068

CWE: 200, 352, 89

DSA: 1557

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