Bug 237781 – dev-db/phpmyadmin < 2.11.9.1: Remote code execution after successful auth (CVE-2008-4096)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Christian Hoffmann (RETIRED) 2008-09-15 19:47:04 UTC]

Quoting $URL:

Summary:
Code execution vulnerability

Description:
We received an advisory from Norman Hippert and we wish to thank him for his work. The server_databases.php script was vulnerable to an attack coming from a user who is already logged-on to phpMyAdmin, where he can execute shell code (if the PHP configuration permits commands like exec).

Severity:
We consider this vulnerability to be serious.

Affected versions:
Versions before 2.11.9.1.

Solution:
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 2.11.9.1 or newer.


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References:
http://fd.the-wildcat.de/pma_e36a091q11.php
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/15/2

[Comment 1 Christian Hoffmann (RETIRED) 2008-09-15 19:49:54 UTC]

Maintainers, please bump.

[Comment 2 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-09-19 15:28:06 UTC]

CVE-2008-4096 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4096):
  libraries/database_interface.lib.php in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.9.1
  allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a
  request to server_databases.php with a sort_by parameter containing
  PHP sequences, which are processed by create_function.

[Comment 3 Christian Hoffmann (RETIRED) 2008-09-20 13:39:24 UTC]

Maintainers, please bump. We have a target delay of 5 days for B1 issues.

[Comment 4 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2008-09-21 13:42:10 UTC]

phpmyadmin-2.11.9.1 is in the tree. Sorry for the delay.

[Comment 5 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-09-21 14:16:52 UTC]

Arches, please test and mark stable:
=dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.11.9.1
Target keywords : "alpha amd64 hppa ppc ppc64 sparc x86"

[Comment 6 Brent Baude (RETIRED) 2008-09-21 15:58:14 UTC]

ppc done

[Comment 7 Brent Baude (RETIRED) 2008-09-21 16:08:47 UTC]

ppc64 done

[Comment 8 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2008-09-21 17:46:19 UTC]

alpha/sparc/x86 stable

[Comment 9 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2008-09-22 03:22:29 UTC]

Stable for HPPA.

[Comment 10 Tobias Heinlein (RETIRED) 2008-09-23 18:58:10 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 11 Tobias Heinlein (RETIRED) 2008-09-23 18:59:55 UTC]

All arches done, request filed.

[Comment 12 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2008-09-29 07:59:03 UTC]

Removed phpmyadmin-2.11.8, -2.11.8.1. webapps done

[Comment 13 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) 2009-03-18 22:32:00 UTC]

GLSA 200903-32