CVE-2016-6606

NameCVE-2016-6606
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in cookie encryption in phpMyAdmin. The decryption of the username/password is vulnerable to a padding oracle attack. This can allow an attacker who has access to a user's browser cookie file to decrypt the username and password. Furthermore, the same initialization vector (IV) is used to hash the username and password stored in the phpMyAdmin cookie. If a user has the same password as their username, an attacker who examines the browser cookie can see that they are the same - but the attacker can not directly decode these values from the cookie as it is still hashed. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-626-1, ELA-315-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
phpmyadmin (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)4:4.2.12-2+deb8u12fixed
stretch (security)4:4.6.6-4+deb9u2fixed
stretch (lts), stretch4:4.6.6-4+deb9u3fixed
bullseye4:5.0.4+dfsg2-2+deb11u1fixed
bookworm4:5.2.1+dfsg-1fixed
sid, trixie4:5.2.1+dfsg-4fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
phpmyadminsourcewheezy4:3.4.11.1-2+deb7u6DLA-626-1
phpmyadminsourcejessie4:4.2.12-2+deb8u10ELA-315-1
phpmyadminsource(unstable)4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1

Notes

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-29/

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