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SUSE-SA:2006:004: phpMyAdmin

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Check for the version of the phpMyAdmin package

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2006:004 (phpMyAdmin).

Stefan Esser discovered a bug in in the register_globals emulation
of phpMyAdmin that permites to overwrite variables. A possible hacker could
exploit the bug to ultimately execute code (CVE-2005-4079).
Additionally several cross-site-scripting bugs were discovered
(CVE-2005-3787, CVE-2005-3665).

We have released a version update to phpMyAdmin-2.7.0-pl2 which
addresses the issues mentioned above.

Solution : http://www.suse.de/security/advisories/2006_04_phpmyadmin.html
Network Security Threat Level: Medium

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Tenable Network Security

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