This update to phpMyAdmin 4.4.15.9 fixes security issues and bugs.
The following security issues were fixed:
- Unsafe generation of $cfg['blowfish_secret'] (PMASA-2016-58)
- phpMyAdmin's phpinfo functionality is removed (PMASA-2016-59)
- AllowRoot and allow/deny rule bypass with specially-crafted username (PMASA-2016-60)
- Username matching weaknesses with allow/deny rules (PMASA-2016-61)
- Possible to bypass logout timeout (PMASA-2016-62)
- Full path disclosure (FPD) weaknesses (PMASA-2016-63)
- Multiple XSS weaknesses (PMASA-2016-64)
- Multiple denial-of-service (DOS) vulnerabilities (PMASA-2016-65)
- Possible to bypass white-list protection for URL redirection (PMASA-2016-66)
- BBCode injection to login page (PMASA-2016-67)
- Denial-of-service (DOS) vulnerability in table partitioning (PMASA-2016-68)
- Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities (PMASA-2016-69 )
- Incorrect serialized string parsing (PMASA-2016-70)
- CSRF token not stripped from the URL (PMASA-2016-71)
The following bugfix changes are included:
- Fix for expanding in navigation pane
- Reintroduced a simplified version of PmaAbsoluteUri directive
(needed with reverse proxies)
- Fix editing of ENUM/SET/DECIMAL field structures
- Improvements to the parser
- Submitted by Eric Schirra (ecsos)