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PMASA-2009-1

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2009-1

Date: 2009-03-24

Summary

HTTP Response Splitting and file inclusion vulnerability.

Description

The BLOB streaming feature allowed attacker to include arbitrary files and inject HTTP headers using crafted URL parameters.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be critical.

Affected Versions

For 2.11.x: not affected as it lacks BLOB streaming support.
For 3.x: versions since 3.1.0.0 and before 3.1.3.1.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 3.1.3.1 or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Manuel Lopez Gallego (Luisyana) and Santiago Rodríguez Collazo, who have discovered this issue and reported it to us.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2009-1148 CVE-2009-1149

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-113

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.