Security Advisory SA29944 - phpMyAdmin Shared Host Information Disclosure

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Secunia Advisory SA29944

phpMyAdmin Shared Host Information Disclosure

Secunia Advisory

SA29944

Release Date

2008-04-23

Last Update

2008-04-25

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Approve distribution

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Software:

phpMyAdmin 1.x

phpMyAdmin 2.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2008-1924 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious users to disclose sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error and can be exploited to disclose arbitrary files via a specially crafted HTTP POST request.

Successful exploitation requires a certain level of access e.g. on a shared host.

The vulnerability is reported in all versions prior to 2.11.5.2.

Solution
Update to version 2.11.5.2.

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Cezary Tomczak.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
PMASA-2008-3:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2008-3

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