Bug 1166637 (CVE-2014-8961)

Summary: CVE-2014-8961 phpMyAdmin: leakage of line count of an arbitrary file (PMASA-2014-16)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Fixed In Version: phpMyAdmin 4.2.12 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On: 1166638, 1166639    
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-11-21 11:39:34 UTC
It was reported [1] that in the error reporting feature, a parameter specifying the file was not correctly validated, allowing the attacker to derive the line count of an arbitrary file. 

[1]: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-16.php

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-11-21 11:40:43 UTC
Created phpMyAdmin tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1166638]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1166639]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2014-11-30 19:11:08 UTC
phpMyAdmin-4.2.12-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-12-01 18:55:58 UTC
phpMyAdmin-4.2.12-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-12-01 18:58:14 UTC
phpMyAdmin-4.2.12-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-12-06 10:15:22 UTC
phpMyAdmin-4.2.12-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.