Bug 600814 – <dev-db/phpmyadmin-4.6.5.1: multiple vulnerabilities

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2016-11-25 15:54:47 UTC]

From $URL:

The phpMyAdmin project is pleased to announce the release of phpMyAdmin versions 4.6.5 (including bug and security fixes), 4.4.15.9 (security fixes), and 4.0.10.18 (security fixes). We recommend all users update their phpMyAdmin installations.

Aside from the security improvements, many bugs have been fixed in version 4.6.5 including:

 - Fix for expanding in navigation pane
 - Reintroduced a simplified version of PmaAbsoluteUri directive (needed with
   reverse proxies)
 - Fix editing of ENUM/SET/DECIMAL field structures
 - Improvements to the parser

Please note that this is expected to be the final release of the 4.4 branch, which ended security support on October 1, 2016.



@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 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2016-11-25 16:05:04 UTC]

PMASA-2016-57 aka CVE-2016-4412

A vulnerability was discovered where a user can be tricked in to following a link leading to phpMyAdmin, which after authentication redirects to another malicious site.

The attacker must sniff the user's valid phpMyAdmin token.


PMASA-2016-58 aka ???

When the user does not specify a blowfish_secret key for encrypting cookies, phpMyAdmin generates one at runtime. A vulnerability was reported where the way this value is created using a weak algorithm.

This could allow an attacker to determine the user's blowfish_secret and potentially decrypt their cookies.


PMASA-2016-59 aka ???

phpinfo (phpinfo.php) shows PHP information including values of HttpOnly cookies.


PMASA-2016-60 aka ???

It is possible to bypass AllowRoot restriction ($cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowRoot']) and deny rules for username by using Null Byte in the username.


PMASA-2016-61 aka ???

A vulnerability in username matching for the allow/deny rules may result in wrong matches and detection of the username in the rule due to non-constant execution time.


PMASA-2016-62 aka ???

With a crafted request parameter value it is possible to bypass the logout timeout.


PMASA-2016-63 aka ???

By calling some scripts that are part of phpMyAdmin in an unexpected way, it is possible to trigger phpMyAdmin to display a PHP error message which contains the full path of the directory where phpMyAdmin is installed. During an execution timeout in the export functionality, the errors containing the full path of the directory of phpMyAdmin is written to the export file.


PMASA-2016-64 aka ???

Several XSS vulnerabilities have been reported, including an improper fix for PMASA-2016-10 and a weakness in a regular expression using in some JavaScript processing.


PMASA-2016-65 aka ???

With a crafted request parameter value it is possible to initiate a denial of service attack in saved searches feature.

With a crafted request parameter value it is possible to initiate a denial of service attack in import feature.

An unauthenticated user can execute a denial of service attack when phpMyAdmin is running with $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']=true;.


PMASA-2016-66 aka ???

Due to the limitation in URL matching, it was possible to bypass the URL white-list protection.


PMASA-2016-67 aka ???

With a crafted login request it is possible to inject BBCode in the login page.


PMASA-2016-68 aka ???

With a very large request to table partitioning function, it is possible to invoke a Denial of Service (DOS) attack.


PMASA-2016-69 aka ???

With a crafted username or a table name, it was possible to inject SQL statements in the tracking functionality that would run with the privileges of the control user. This gives read and write access to the tables of the configuration storage database, and if the control user has the necessary privileges, read access to some tables of the mysql database.


PMASA-2016-70 aka ???

Due to a bug in serialized string parsing, it was possible to bypass the protection offered by PMA_safeUnserialize() function.


PMASA-2016-71 aka ???

When the arg_separator is different from its default value of &, the token was not properly stripped from the return URL of the preference import action.



Highest rated vulnerability is PMASA-2016-69.

[Comment 2 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2016-11-27 13:27:48 UTC]

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c132e5e587292316d6edc7c2546f3f7e8a74f6e3
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b7f34ba9b148731bf984215f1f22e3d1b5016b48

13:15 < gentoovcs> jmbsvicetto → repo/gentoo (dev-db/phpmyadmin/) dev-db/phpmyadmin: dev-db/phpmyadmin: Security bump - bug 600814
13:15 < gentoovcs> jmbsvicetto → repo/gentoo (dev-db/phpmyadmin/) dev-db/phpmyadmin: Drop vulnerable versions, but keep the last stable versions.
13:15 < willikins> gentoovcs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/600814 "dev-db/phpmyadmin: multiple vulnerabilities"; Gentoo Security, Vulnerabilities; IN_P; whissi:security

Dear @arches:

please test and mark stable =dev-db/phpmyadmin-4.6.5.1
The 4.4 branch has reached the end of its security supported life and so we should move to the 4.6 branch.

Stable targets: "alpha amd64 hppa ppc ppc64 sparc x86"

[Comment 3 Tobias Klausmann (RETIRED) 2016-11-27 16:44:19 UTC]

Stable on alpha.

[Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo 2016-11-29 10:42:24 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 5 Agostino Sarubbo 2016-11-29 10:44:46 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo 2016-12-19 14:41:15 UTC]

sparc stable

[Comment 7 Agostino Sarubbo 2016-12-20 09:50:32 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 8 Agostino Sarubbo 2016-12-22 09:38:58 UTC]

ppc64 stable

[Comment 9 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2017-01-10 07:13:02 UTC]

Stable for HPPA.

[Comment 10 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2017-01-10 14:43:50 UTC]

New GLSA request filed.

@ Maintainer(s): Please cleanup and drop <dev-db/phpmyadmin-4.6.5.1!

[Comment 11 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2017-01-11 13:15:42 UTC]

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201701-32 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).

[Comment 12 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) 2017-01-11 13:22:53 UTC]

reopened for cleanup.

[Comment 13 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2017-01-11 15:41:09 UTC]

(In reply to Aaron Bauman from comment #12)
> reopened for cleanup.

I've removed the affected versions and the complete 4.4 series since it's no longer supported and was removed from upstream's download page[1].

 [1] - https://www.phpmyadmin.net/downloads/

[Comment 14 László Szalma 2017-01-22 15:48:21 UTC]

The export functionality is commpletely broken in 4.6.5.1, it is fixed in 4.6.5.2

https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/12765

Because the stable is 4.6.5.1 in Gentoo, this causes headache to many users.

[Comment 15 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2017-01-22 20:37:08 UTC]

(In reply to László Szalma from comment #14)
> The export functionality is commpletely broken in 4.6.5.1, it is fixed in
> 4.6.5.2
> 
> https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/12765
> 
> Because the stable is 4.6.5.1 in Gentoo, this causes headache to many users.

This is a regression that can be handled on its own bug.
Also, 4.6.5.2 has been in the tree since December 7th.