PMASA-2011-8

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2011-8

Date: 2011-07-02

Summary

Possible directory traversal.

Description

Fixed filtering of a file path in the MIME-type transformation code, which allowed for directory traversal.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be serious.

Affected Versions

The 3.4.3 and earlier versions are affected.

Unaffected Versions

Branch 2.11.x is not affected by this.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 3.3.10.2 or 3.4.3.1 or apply the related patch listed below.

References

This issue was found by Frans Pehrson from Xxor AB. His advisory.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2011-2508

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-98

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

The following commits have been made on the 3.3 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.

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