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phppgadmin -- "formLanguage" local file inclusion vulnerability

Affected packages
		phppgadmin	<	3.5.4

Details

VuXML ID	88188a8c-eff6-11d9-8310-0001020eed82
Discovery	2005-07-05
Entry	2005-07-08
Modified	2005-07-21

A Secunia Advisory reports:

A vulnerability has been reported in phpPgAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

Input passed to the "formLanguage" parameter in "index.php" isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources.

Successful exploitation requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.

[source]

References

Bugtraq ID	14142
CVE Name	CVE-2005-2256
URL	http://secunia.com/advisories/15941/
URL	http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=342261