openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-SU-2014:1561-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79753

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

phpMyAdmin was updated to fix four security issues.

For openSUSE 12.3 and 13.1, phpMyAdmin was updated to 4.1.14.7. For openSUSE 13.2, phpMyAdmin was updated to to 4.2.12.

These security issues were fixed :

- XSS vulnerability in error reporting functionality (CVE-2014-8960).

- Local file inclusion vulnerability (CVE-2014-8959).

- Multiple XSS vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-8958).

- Leakage of line count of an arbitrary file (CVE-2014-8961).

Solution

Update the affected phpMyAdmin package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=906485

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=906486

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=906487

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=906488

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00017.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79753

File Name: openSUSE-2014-735.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/6/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8958, CVE-2014-8959, CVE-2014-8960, CVE-2014-8961