Upstream announcement:
The phpMyAdmin team announces the release of phpMyAdmin version 4.8.5. Among other bug fixes, this contains several important security fixes. Upgrading is highly recommended for all users.
The security fixes involve:
The arbitrary file read vulnerability could also be exploited to delete arbitrary files on the server. This attack requires that phpMyAdmin be run with the $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer'] directive set to true, which is not the default. An attacker must run a malicious server process that will masquerade as a MySQL server. This exploit has been found and fixed recently in several other related projects and appears to be caused by a bug in PHP (https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77496).
In addition to the security fixes, this release also includes these bug fixes and more as part of our regular release cycle:
And several more. Complete notes are in the ChangeLog file included with this release.
Updates may require up to 24 hours to propagate to mirrors. If the following command doesn't work, please retry later:
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2019-6cfd17b03dPlease login to add feedback.
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