Fedora 19 : phpMyAdmin-4.2.13.1-1.fc19 (2014-16474)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79948

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

phpMyAdmin 4.2.13.1 (2014-12-03) ================================

- [security] XSS vulnerability in redirection mechanism

- [security] DOS attack with long passwords

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=1170597

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170604

http://www.nessus.org/u?2fd04e26

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79948

File Name: fedora_2014-16474.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/15/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9218, CVE-2014-9219

FEDORA: 2014-16474