Debian DSA-2139-1 : phpmyadmin - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51401

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Synopsis

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

Description

Several 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-2010-4329 Cross site scripting was possible in search, that allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

- CVE-2010-4480 Cross site scripting was possible in errors, that allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

- CVE-2010-4481 Display of PHP's phpinfo() function was available to world, but only if this functionality had been enabled (defaults to off). This may leak some information about the host system.

Solution

Upgrade the phpmyadmin package.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 2.11.8.1-5+lenny7.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51401

File Name: debian_DSA-2139.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/3/2011

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/31/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4329, CVE-2010-4480, CVE-2010-4481

BID: 45100

DSA: 2139

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