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phpmyadmin -- command execution vulnerability

Description:

A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports:

Command execution: since phpMyAdmin 2.6.0-pl2, on a system where external MIME-based transformations are activated, an attacker can put into MySQL data an offensive value that starts a shell command when browsed.

Enabling PHP safe mode on the server can be used as a workaround for this vulnerability.

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Affects:

portaudit: phpmyadmin -- command execution vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>