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Fedora 23 : phpMyAdmin (2016-55261b6815)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 92097

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

phpMyAdmin 4.6.2 (2016-05-25) =============================

 - [security] User SQL queries can be revealed through URL GET parameters, see PMASA-2016-14

 - [security] Self XSS vulneratbility, see PMASA-2016-16

 - Use https for documentation links

 - Fix schema export with too many tables

 - Avoid parsing non JSON responses as JSON

 - Avoid using too log URLs when getting javascripts

 - Fixed setting mixed case languages

 - Avoid storing objects in session when debugging SQL

 - Fix cookie path on IIS

 - Fix occassional 200 errors on Windows

 - Fix locking issues when importing SQL

 - Avoid confusing warning when mysql extension is missing

 - Improve handling of logout

 - Safer handling of sessions during authentication

 - Fix server selection on main page

 - Avoid storing full error data in session

 - Fixed export of ARCHIVE tables with keys

 - Add session reload for config authentication

 - Do not fail on errors stored in session

 - Fix loading of APC based upload progress bar

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-55261b6815

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 92097

File Name: fedora_2016-55261b6815.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/14/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/1/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5097