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PMASA-2006-9

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2006-9

Date: 2006-11-17

Summary

Bad IP Allow/Deny checking

Description

We received a security advisory from Christian Schmidt, Peytz & Co. and we wish to thank him for his work. It was possible to get around IP-based Allow/Deny checking by faking proxy headers.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be serious.

Affected Versions

Probably all versions to 2.9.1.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 2.9.1.1 or newer.

References

Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2006-6944

CWE IDs: CWE-661 CWE-264

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 security team at security@phpmyadmin.net.

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