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PMASA-2010-2

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2010-2

Date: 2010-01-15

Summary

Unsafe handling of temporary files

Description

phpMyAdmin created temporary files with predictable file name.

Severity

We consider these vulnerabilities to be not critical.

Affected Versions

For 2.11.x: versions before 2.11.10 are affected.

Unaffected Versions

3.x releases are not affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 3.0.0 or 2.11.10.

References

We wish to thank to Thijs Kinkhorst for pointing out this issue.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2008-7252

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-376

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

The following commits have been made on the 2.11 branch to fix this issue:

More information

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