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Mike Healan
02-03-2004, 10:45 PM
Summary :

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of
MySQL over the WWW. There is a vulnerability in the current stable version of
phpMyAdmin that allows an attacker to retrieve arbitrary files from the
webserver with privileges of the webserver..

Details :

The export PHP script can be exploited to disclose arbitrary file using a
include() PHP call.

Vulnerable Systems:
* phpMyAdmin 2.5.5-pl1 and prior

Vendor Status :

The information has been provided to the phpMyAdmin Project Managers.
A new release candidate 2.5.6-rc1 with fixes for this vulnerability is available.
- --> http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/
- --> http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/relnotes.php?rel=0

ProWebUK
02-04-2004, 08:14 AM
Useful.... the stable releases all have the problem...:rolleyes:

Am going to try 2.5.6-rc1 now I think ;)

l0rdphi1
02-04-2004, 08:17 AM
Upgrade went smooth for me using this (http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=1588).

Thanks.

ProWebUK
02-05-2004, 06:33 PM
Originally posted by l0rdphi1
Upgrade went smooth for me using this (http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=1588).

Thanks.

Worked for me on a few servers without a glitch :D

Chris