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Debian DSA-1675-1 : phpmyadmin - insufficient input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35010

Synopsis

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

Description

Masako Oono discovered that phpMyAdmin, a web-based administration interface for MySQL, insufficiently sanitises input allowing a remote attacker to gather sensitive data through cross site scripting, provided that the user uses the Internet Explorer web browser.

This update also fixes a regression introduced in DSA 1641, that broke changing of the language and encoding in the login screen.

Solution

Upgrade the phpmyadmin package.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 4:2.9.1.1-9.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1675

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35010

File Name: debian_DSA-1675.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/3/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/30/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4326

CWE: 79

DSA: 1675