Unsafe handling of temporary files

PMASA-2010-2

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2010-2

Date: 2010-01-15

Summary

Unsafe handling of temporary files

Description

phpMyAdmin created temporary files with predictable file name.

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-2008-7252

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-376

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

• 6df6ebf95de332f7887d19c8c08541c05973c34c

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

• 8fcdad43064afb187823680022711b8d3a1bb533

More information

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