USN-6825-1: ADOdb vulnerabilities

10 June 2024

Several security issues were fixed in ADOdb.

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Packages

  • libphp-adodb - ADOdb is a PHP database abstraction layer library

Details

It was discovered that the PDO driver in ADOdb was incorrectly handling
string quotes. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
perform SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2016-7405)

It was discovered that ADOdb was incorrectly handling GET parameters in
test.php. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute
cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu
16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-4855)

Emmet Leahy discovered that ADOdb was incorrectly handling string quotes
in PostgreSQL connections. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue
to bypass authentication. (CVE-2021-3850)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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