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Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-9856): phpmyadmin vulnerability

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Dec 11, 2016

Added

Jun 26, 2025

Modified

Jul 28, 2025

Description

An XSS issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin because of an improper fix for CVE-2016-2559 in PMASA-2016-10. This issue is resolved by using a copy of a hash to avoid a race condition. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.18) are affected.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package

References

CVE-2016-9856
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-9856
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9856
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-64/

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