Unsafe handling of temporary directory

PMASA-2010-1

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2010-1

Date: 2010-01-15

Summary

Unsafe handling of temporary directory

Description

phpMyAdmin used to automatically create temporary world writable directory what could lead to possible misuse of it.

Severity

We consider these vulnerabilities to be not critical.

Affected Versions

For 2.11.x: versions before 2.11.10 are affected.

Unaffected Versions

3.x releases are not affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 3.0.0 or 2.11.10.

References

We wish to thank to Thijs Kinkhorst for pointing out this issue.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2008-7251

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-376

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

• e903114c5854b24ca06fc1f1edfca6ece9e3ad2c

The following commits have been made on the 2.11 branch to fix this issue:

• 6c96a59db5e9f86deeab04e820c30553dada8252

More information

For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.