DSA 1675-1: New phpmyadmin packages fix cross site scripting

Posted by Bob on: 11/30/2008 02:30 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1675-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
November 30, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : phpmyadmin
Vulnerability : insufficient input sanitising
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-4326

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.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4:2.11.8.1-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpmyadmin package.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.9.1.1-9.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1019 b751c9769e198e656e7b982ec8bc4fc9
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.9.1.1.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3500563 f598509b308bf96aee836eb2338f523c
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.9.1.1-9.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 54647 fee9d9989bd7e53fbe5f5308078cc68d

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin_2.9.1.1-9_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 3602510 4148b6e9d9ee79457a9696cec5816259

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show lt;pkggt;' and http://packages.debian.org/lt;pkggt;
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