Denial of service (DOS) attack with dbase extension

PMASA-2016-55

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-55

Date: 2016-07-25

Summary

Denial of service (DOS) attack with dbase extension

Description

A flaw was discovered where, under certain conditions, phpMyAdmin may not delete temporary files during the import of ESRI files.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non-critical.

Mitigation factor

This vulnerability only exists when PHP is running with the dbase extension, which is not shipped by default, not available in most Linux distributions, and doesn’t compile with PHP7.

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-2016-6632

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

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

• 6f8eb09

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

• e31ac0b

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

• 48764f2

More information

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