[ GLSA 200803-15 ] phpMyAdmin: SQL injection vulnerability

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200803-15

                                        http://security.gentoo.org/

Severity: Low
Title: phpMyAdmin: SQL injection vulnerability
Date: March 09, 2008
Bugs: #212000
ID: 200803-15

Synopsis

A SQL injection vulnerability has been discovered in phpMyAdmin.

Background

phpMyAdmin is a free web-based database administration tool.

Affected packages

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1 dev-db/phpmyadmin < 2.11.5 >= 2.11.5

Description

Richard Cunningham reported that phpMyAdmin uses the $_REQUEST variable
of $_GET and $_POST as a source for its parameters.

Impact

An attacker could entice a user to visit a malicious web application
that sets an "sql_query" cookie and is hosted on the same domain as
phpMyAdmin, and thereby conduct SQL injection attacks with the
privileges of the user authenticating in phpMyAdmin afterwards.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All phpMyAdmin users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.11.5&quot;

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-1149
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1149

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-15.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
[email protected] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.