DSA 759-1: New phppgadmin packages

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 07/18/2005 06:34 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

New phppgadmin packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 759-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
July 18th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : phppgadmin
Vulnerability : missing input sanitising
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-2256
BugTraq ID : 14142

A vulnerability has been discovered in phppgadmin, a set of PHP scripts to administrate PostgreSQL over the WWW, that can lead to disclose sensitive information. Successful exploitation requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.

the old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.2-5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.4.

We recommend that you upgrade your phppgadmin 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 3.1 alias sarge
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phppgadmin/phppgadmin_3.5.2-5.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 584 46f4509ee768781e441286d125afe0f5
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phppgadmin/phppgadmin_3.5.2-5.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 10063 8f1d0323ae84979c21a409334c6e70db
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phppgadmin/phppgadmin_3.5.2.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 612995 9978c0a723a9e4572f2264478c0ba193

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phppgadmin/phppgadmin_3.5.2-5_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 601022 b9e4117adf7ef565e6884fbde4daaf9f

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