Debian Security Advisory DSA 2975-1 (phpmyadmin - Security Update) Network Vulnerability

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin, a tool to administer MySQL over the web. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2013-4995 Authenticated users could inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted SQL query. CVE-2013-4996 Cross site scripting was possible via a crafted logo URL in the navigation panel or a crafted entry in the Trusted Proxies list. CVE-2013-5002 Authenticated users could inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted pageNumber value in Schema Export. CVE-2013-5003Authenticated users could execute arbitrary SQL commands as the phpMyAdmin control user via the scale parameter PMD PDF export and the pdf_page_number parameter in Schema Export. CVE-2014-1879 Authenticated users could inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted file name in the Import function.

Solution

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4:3.4.11.1-2+deb7u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4:4.2.5-1. We recommend that you upgrade your phpmyadmin packages.

Insight

This package allows administering of MySQL with a web interface.

Affected

phpmyadmin on Debian Linux

Detection

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

References