phpmyadmin -- information disclosure vulnerability

Description:

A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports:

By calling some scripts that are part of phpMyAdmin in an unexpected way (especially scripts in the libraries subdirectory), it is possible to trigger phpMyAdmin to display a PHP error message which contains the full path of the directory where phpMyAdmin is installed.

Mitigation factor: This path disclosure is possible on servers where the recommended setting of the PHP configuration directive display_errors is set to on, which is against the recommendations given in the PHP manual.

References:

• CVE name CVE-2005-0544
• URL: <http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2005-2>

Affects:

• phpmyadmin <2.6.1.2
• phpMyAdmin <2.6.1.2

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