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Vulnerability of phpMyAdmin: SQL injection via Username

Synthesis of the vulnerability 

An attacker can use a SQL injection via Username of phpMyAdmin, in order to read or alter data.
Impacted products: Fedora, openSUSE Leap, phpMyAdmin, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity of this bulletin: 3/4.
Creation date: 28/01/2019.
Références of this threat: CVE-2019-6798, FEDORA-2019-09ae31d880, FEDORA-2019-6cfd17b03d, openSUSE-SU-2019:0194-1, PMASA-2019-2, USN-4639-1, VIGILANCE-VUL-28377.

Description of the vulnerability 

The phpMyAdmin product uses a database.

However, user's data are directly inserted in a SQL query.

An attacker can therefore use a SQL injection via Username of phpMyAdmin, in order to read or alter data.
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This weakness announce impacts software or systems such as Fedora, openSUSE Leap, phpMyAdmin, SLES, Ubuntu.

Our Vigil@nce team determined that the severity of this vulnerability alert is important.

The trust level is of type confirmed by the editor, with an origin of intranet client.

An attacker with a expert ability can exploit this computer threat announce.

Solutions for this threat 

phpMyAdmin: version 4.8.5.
The version 4.8.5 is fixed:
  https://www.phpmyadmin.net/downloads/

Fedora: new phpMyAdmin packages.
New packages are available:
  Fedora 28: phpMyAdmin 4.8.5-1.fc28
  Fedora 29: phpMyAdmin 4.8.5-1.fc29

openSUSE Leap: new phpMyAdmin packages.
New packages are available:
  openSUSE Leap 42.3: phpMyAdmin 4.8.5-27.1
  openSUSE Leap 15.0: phpMyAdmin 4.8.5-lp150.2.15.1
  SUSE LE 15 RTM: phpMyAdmin 4.8.5-bp150.3.9.1

Ubuntu 18.04: new phpmyadmin packages.
New packages are available:
  Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: phpmyadmin 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5

Wind River Linux: solution (21/05/2019).
The solution is indicated in information sources.
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