CVE-2005-4079 Information

Description

The register_globals emulation in phpMyAdmin 2.7.0 rc1 allows remote attackers to exploit other vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin by modifying the import_blacklist variable in grab_globals.php which can then be used to overwrite other variables.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/17925/ http://secunia.com/advisories/17957 http://secunia.com/advisories/18618 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/237 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-03.xml http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_252005.110.html http://www.osvdb.org/21508 http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php?relnotes=0 http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2005-9 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/418834/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423142/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15761 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2792