<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200510-21"> <title>phpMyAdmin: Local file inclusion and XSS vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis> phpMyAdmin contains a local file inclusion vulnerability that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, along with several cross-site scripting issues. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">phpmyadmin</product> <announced>2005-10-25</announced> <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised> <bug>110146</bug> <access>local and remote</access> <affected> <package name="dev-db/phpmyadmin" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.6.4_p3</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.6.4_p3</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the web. </p> </background> <description> <p> Stefan Esser discovered that by calling certain PHP files directly, it was possible to workaround the grab_globals.lib.php security model and overwrite the $cfg configuration array. Systems running PHP in safe mode are not affected. Futhermore, Tobias Klein reported several cross-site-scripting issues resulting from insufficient user input sanitizing. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A local attacker may exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious requests, causing the execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the web server. Furthermore, the cross-site scripting issues give a remote attacker the ability to inject and execute malicious script code or to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, potentially compromising the victim's browser. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround for all those issues at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All phpMyAdmin users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.6.4_p3"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2005-5">PMASA-2005-5</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3300">CVE-2005-3300</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3301">CVE-2005-3301</uri> </references> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-10-24T08:28:30Z"> koon </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-10-25T08:03:47Z"> koon </metadata> </glsa>