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PMASA-2008-8

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2008-8

Date: 2008-09-23

Updated: 2008-10-01

Summary

XSS for Microsoft Internet Explorer on several places

Description

We received an advisory from Masako Oono of NetAgent Co.,Ltd. via JPCERT/CC Vulnerability Handling Team and we wish to thank them for their work. A logged-in user (when using Microsoft Internet Explorer) can be subject of cross site scripting attack using several variables. This issue does not affect other browsers (tested with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Konqueror and Apple Safari).

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be serious.

Affected Versions

Versions before 2.11.9.2.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 2.11.9.2 or newer.

References

Advisory: http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN54824688

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2008-4326

Patches

Revision 11603 was applied on all branches.

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