vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-6613: phpmyadmin -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 17, 2016
Added
Mar 31, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A user can specially craft a symlink on disk, to a file which phpMyAdmin is permitted to read but the user is not, which phpMyAdmin will then expose to the user. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected.

Solution

debian-upgrade-phpmyadmin
Title
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