DOS attack

PMASA-2016-22

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-22

Date: 2016-06-23

Summary

DOS attack

Description

A Denial Of Service (DOS) attack was discovered in the way phpMyAdmin loads some JavaScript files.

Severity

We consider this to be of moderate severity

Affected Versions

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.3), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.7), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.16) are affected

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.3, 4.4.15.7, or 4.0.10.16 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Deniz Cevik from Biznet Bilisim for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-5706

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

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

• 75724a3
• 805225a

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

• abb3685
• 9de4114

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

• 4767f24

More information

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