<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200805-02"> <title>phpMyAdmin: Information disclosure</title> <synopsis> A vulnerability in phpMyAdmin may lead to information disclosure. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">phpmyadmin</product> <announced>2008-05-05</announced> <revised count="01">2008-05-05</revised> <bug>219005</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="dev-db/phpmyadmin" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.11.5.2</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.11.5.2</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser. </p> </background> <description> <p> Cezary Tomczak reported that an undefined UploadDir variable exposes an information disclosure vulnerability when running on shared hosts. </p> </description> <impact type="low"> <p> A remote attacker with CREATE TABLE permissions can exploit this vulnerability via a specially crafted HTTP POST request in order to read arbitrary files. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround 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-2.11.5.2"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1924">CVE-2008-1924</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-04-29T13:00:15Z"> vorlon </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-04-29T13:00:26Z"> vorlon </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-04-29T18:38:43Z"> mfleming </metadata> </glsa>