Denial of service (DOS) attack by for loops

PMASA-2016-46

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-46

Date: 2016-07-26

Summary

Denial of service (DOS) attack by for loops

Description

A vulnerability has been reported where a malicious authorized user can cause a denial-of-service (DOS) attack on a server by passing large values to a loop.

Severity

We consider this issue to be of moderate severity.

Affected Versions

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

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.4, 4.4.15.8, 4.0.10.17, or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-6623

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:

• 5a28b63

The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:

• 62ae47c

The following commits have been made on the 4.6 branch to fix this issue:

• ff1016e

More information

For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.