[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: phpMyAdmin-2.11.5.1-1.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-2825
2008-04-01 21:08:57
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Name        : phpMyAdmin
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 2.11.5.1
Release     : 1.fc8
URL         : http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
Summary     : Web based MySQL browser written in php
Description :
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of
MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases,
create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement,
manage keys on fields, manage privileges,export data into various formats and
is available in 50 languages

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Update Information:

This update addresses PMASA-2008-2 / CVE-2008-1567:    phpMyAdmin upstream
received an advisory from Jim Hermann: It saves sensitive information like the
MySQL username and password and the Blowfish secret key in session data, which
might be unprotected on a shared host.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2008-2
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Mar 29 2008 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 2.11.5.1-1
- Upstream released 2.11.5.1
* Mon Mar  3 2008 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 2.11.5-1
- Upstream released 2.11.5
* Sun Jan 13 2008 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 2.11.4-1
- Upstream released 2.11.4
- Corrected mod_security example in configuration file (#427119)
* Sun Dec  9 2007 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 2.11.3-1
- Upstream released 2.11.3
- Removed the RPM scriptlets doing httpd restarts (#227025)
- Patched an information disclosure known as CVE-2007-0095 (#221694)
- Provide virtual phpmyadmin package and a httpd alias (#231431)
* Wed Nov 21 2007 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 2.11.2.2-1
- Upstream released 2.11.2.2 (#393771)
* Tue Nov 20 2007 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> 2.11.2.1-1
- Upstream released new version
* Mon Oct 29 2007 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> 2.11.2-1
* upstream released new version
* Mon Oct 22 2007 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> 2.11.1.2-1
* upstream released new version
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #439974 - CVE-2008-1567 user/password/secret key are stored plaintext
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439974
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update phpMyAdmin' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
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