PMASA-2011-10

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2011-10

Date: 2011-07-23

Summary

Local file inclusion.

Description

Via a crafted MIME-type transformation parameter, an attacker can perform a local file inclusion.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be serious.

Mitigation factor

The phpMyAdmin's configuration storage mechanism must be configured for this attack to work.

Affected Versions

Versions 3.4.0 to 3.4.3.1 are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 3.4.3.2 or apply the related patch listed below.

References

This issue was found by Norman Hippert from The-Wildcat.de

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2011-2643

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-98

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

More information

For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.

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