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Bug 564238

Summary: <dev-db/phpmyadmin-{4.4.15.2,4.5.3.1}: Content spoofing vulnerability when redirecting user to an external site
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: jmbsvicetto, web-apps
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2015-5/
Whiteboard: B4 [noglsa]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 569800    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2015-10-27 08:27:43 UTC
From ${URL} :

PMASA-2015-5

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2015-5

Date: 2015-10-23

Summary

Content spoofing vulnerability when redirecting user to an external site

Description

This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform a content spoofing attack using the phpMyAdmin's redirection mechanism to external sites.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non critical since the spoofed content is escaped and no HTML injection is possible.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.15.1) and 4.5.x (prior to 4.5.1) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.4.15.1 or newer, or 4.5.1 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Lalith Rallabhandi for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: 2015-7873

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-20

Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:

2b31866fe0b30b867aaf5b5fedb11adb354e037f
The following commits have been made on the 4.5 branch to fix this issue:

cd097656758f981f80fb9029c7d6b4294582b706



@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2015-11-04 22:14:23 UTC
22:12 < gentoovcs> jmbsvicetto → repo/gentoo (dev-db/phpmyadmin/) [dev-db/phpmyadmin] Version bump to address PMASA-2015-5 - fixes bug 564238. Drop vulnerable version.
22:12 < willikins> gentoovcs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/564238 "dev-db/phpmyadmin: Content spoofing vulnerability when redirecting user to an external site"; Gentoo Security, Vulnerabilities; IN_P; ago:security

Package bumped.
Comment 2 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2016-02-25 07:49:00 UTC
Thank you all for you work. 
Closing as [noglsa].