[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: phpMyAdmin-4.7.8-1.fc27
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-a1650ed14f
2018-02-26 16:53:03.955591
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Name : phpMyAdmin
Product : Fedora 27
Version : 4.7.8
Release : 1.fc27
URL : https://www.phpmyadmin.net/
Summary : Handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web
Description :
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of
MySQL over the World Wide Web. Most frequently used operations are supported
by the user interface (managing databases, tables, fields, relations, indexes,
users, permissions), while you still have the ability to directly execute any
SQL statement.
Features include an intuitive web interface, support for most MySQL features
(browse and drop databases, tables, views, fields and indexes, create, copy,
drop, rename and alter databases, tables, fields and indexes, maintenance
server, databases and tables, with proposals on server configuration, execute,
edit and bookmark any SQL-statement, even batch-queries, manage MySQL users
and privileges, manage stored procedures and triggers), import data from CSV
and SQL, export data to various formats: CSV, SQL, XML, PDF, OpenDocument Text
and Spreadsheet, Word, Excel, LATEX and others, administering multiple servers,
creating PDF graphics of your database layout, creating complex queries using
Query-by-example (QBE), searching globally in a database or a subset of it,
transforming stored data into any format using a set of predefined functions,
like displaying BLOB-data as image or download-link and much more...
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Update Information:
From upstream announcement: **Security fix: phpMyAdmin 4.7.8 is released**
Welcome to phpMyAdmin 4.7.8, a security releaes also containing regular
maintenance bug fixes. The security fix relates to a self-XSS vulnerability in
the central columns feature that is reported as PMASA-2018-1
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2018-1/. Thanks to Mayur Udiniya
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayur-udiniya-09247b129/ for finding and responsibly
disclosing this flaw. We recommend all users upgrade to resolve this security
problem. A complete list of new features and bugs that have been fixed is
available in the ChangeLog file or changelog.php included with this release.
Notable changes since 4.7.7: * Fixed error handling with PHP 7.2 * Fixed
resetting default setting values * Fixed fallback value for collation
connection Additionally, there have been continuous improvements to many of the
translations. If you don't see your language or find a problem, you can
contribute too; see https://www.phpmyadmin.net/translate/ for details.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1547748 - CVE-2018-7260 phpMyAdmin: XSS in db_central_columns.php
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547748
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade phpMyAdmin' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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