Bug 725382 (CVE-2011-2643) - CVE-2011-2643 phpMyAdmin: v3.3.10.3, v3.4.3.2: Local file inclusion via a crafted MIME-type transformation parameter (PMASA-2011-10)
Summary: CVE-2011-2643 phpMyAdmin: v3.3.10.3, v3.4.3.2: Local file inclusion via a cra...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-2643
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 725385 725386
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-07-25 10:57 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:46 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-07-19 15:47:57 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-07-25 10:57:49 UTC 
A local file inclusion flaw was found in the way phpMyAdmin, the MySQL over WWW administration tool, performed particular SQL query execution. A local attacker could use this flaw to obtain sensitive information via specially-crafted MIME-type transformation parameter.

References:
[1] http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011-10.php
[2] http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/news.php

Upstream patches:
[3] http://phpmyadmin.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin;a=commitdiff;h=f63e1bb42a37401b2fdfcd2e66cce92b7ea2025c

Versions affected:
Versions 3.4.0 to 3.4.3.1 are affected. 

Further flaw exploitation details:
The phpMyAdmin's configuration storage mechanism must be configured for this attack to work.
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-07-25 10:59:52 UTC 
This issue affects the versions of the phpMyAdmin package, as shipped with Fedora release of 14 and 15.

Please schedule an update.

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This issue affects the version of the phpMyAdmin package, as present within EPEL-6 repository.

Please schedule an update.

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This issue did NOT affect the versions of the phpMyAdmin package, as present within EPEL-4 and EPEL-5 repositories.
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-07-25 11:04:17 UTC 
Created phpMyAdmin tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 725385]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 725386]
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