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Fedora 8 : phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.2-1.fc8 (2008-8286)

high Nessus Plugin ID 34283

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update by upstream to phpMyAdmin 2.11.9.2 solves a not yet clearly specified XSS in MSIE using NUL byte vulnerability. - [auth] Links to version number on login screen - [core] PMA does not start if ini_set() is disabled

 - [bookmarks] Saved queries greater than 1000 chars not displayed - [export] Export type 'replace' does not work
 - [export] DROP PROCEDURE needs IF EXISTS

 - [export] Numbers in Excel export - [lang] Norwegian UTF-8 original file remerged - [parser] Undefined variable seen_from - [security] Code execution vulnerability - [security] XSS in MSIE using NUL byte

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463260

http://www.nessus.org/u?aad56bd1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 34283

File Name: fedora_2008-8286.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/25/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2008

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4096

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2008-8286