phpMyAdmin: SQL injection vulnerability

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Advisory Reference	GLSA 200803-15 / phpmyadmin
Release Date	March 09, 2008
Latest Revision	March 09, 2008: 01
Impact	low
Exploitable	local

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
dev-db/phpmyadmin	< 2.11.5	>= 2.11.5	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #212000

Synopsis

A SQL injection vulnerability has been discovered in phpMyAdmin.

2. Impact Information

Background

phpMyAdmin is a free web-based database administration tool.

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.

3. Resolution Information

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All phpMyAdmin users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.11.5"

4. References

CVE-2008-1149

Page updated March 09, 2008

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