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<!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 "&gt;=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>
